Sentences with phrase «called tuft cells»

In mice, norovirus infects rare cells in the lining of the gut called tuft cells.

Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown, in mice, that the virus infects a rare type of intestinal cell called a tuft cell, so named because each cell sports a cluster of hairlike extensions on its surface.

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It involves a type of inhibitory neuron called short - axon (SA) cells, and a type of local excitatory neuron called external tufted (ET) cells.

Ordinarily, Coffin specializes in fish hearing — studying the hair - like tufts of sensory cells arrayed along each side of zebrafish in what is called the lateral line.