Sentences with phrase «cell clusters»

He saw a four - cell cluster where there had been two cells.

While typically thought of as solitary life forms, microbes frequently aggregate to form dense cell clusters.

Primate studies have led to the deciphering of many of the complex mechanics of AIDS, and have helped in the understanding of the function of brain cell clusters in Alzheimer patients.

The pancreas, which helps the small intestine digest food, has hundreds of thousands of cell clusters called islets of Langerhans where beta cells live.

The wiring diagrams look like colorful threads on a tapestry, and they're clear enough to show which cell clusters control specific behaviors.

The work also reinforces the importance of finding tumor cell clusters in the blood as a mechanism of detecting cancer metastasis earlier.

Using spatial correlation functions to quantify the differences between emergent cell lineage segregation patterns, we find that strong adhesion often, but not always, maximizes the size of clonal cell clusters on flat surfaces.

She revealed that GMF, a protein that promotes the disassembly of branched actin filament networks, controls the size and lifetime of protrusions in border cell clusters migrating in fruit fly egg chambers.

Cancerous cells cluster together to form a mass called a tumor and can spread throughout the body to other, more distant areas.

These included, surprisingly, a pair of nerve cell clusters called the SCN, for suprachiasmatic nuclei (SU - per - ky - az - MAT - ik NU - klee - eye).

As yeast overgrowths, cancerous cell clusters, parasites, and bacteria are starved in the detox process and die off, the weakest parts of your elimination pathways may become blocked, clogged, and overwhelmed — leading to pain, fatigue, and other uncomfortable symptoms.

Using the material and protein combination, the researchers evaluated multiple locations for implanting the islet cell clusters, the first time such a direct comparison of transplant sites has been made.

Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)- dependent protein kinase, labeled with fluorescein and rhodamine on the catalytic and regulatory subunits, respectively, was injected into Aplysia sensory neurons either in culture or in intact cell clusters.

«Circulating tumor cell clusters more likely to cause metastasis than single cells.»

«By teaming up, we were able to isolate individual cell clusters involved in the degradation of the greenhouse gas methane from our samples, identify the cellular partners involved in this process, and gain insights into their genetic code.»

Importantly, diminished protrusion dynamics in GMF - deficient flies correlated with problems in border cell cluster migration.

In germinal centers — the sites within lymph nodes where mature B cells cluster — B cells proliferate and undergo hypermutation of their antibody genes to generate high - affinity antibodies.

LAB LIVER Lab - made liver cells and umbilical cord cells clustered together in a dish to form three - dimensional liver buds (white dots), a new study reports.

However, until now, the germ cell clusters in mammalian ovaries were thought by most researchers to be a non-functional, evolutionary relic.

Most of these nerve cells cluster near a region in the fly brain called the lateral protocerebrum, the team reports in the 6 April issue of Current Biology.

Z - stack plots (1 micron thick layers) were taken for 6 unique cell clusters from each sample.

Many of the body's immune cells cluster around the intestines, says Denning.

Typical epithelial cell clustering is noted.

The stem cells cluster and are easy to identify; they divide to produce another germ line stem cell and a differentiating cell called a gonialblast, which goes on to eventually become a sperm cell.

Kass developed the midstream urine test (still used when you pee in a cup) and set a numerical cutoff for the number of bacteria in normal urine: not more than 100,000 colony - forming units (cell clusters on a culture dish) per milliliter of urine.

To avoid the risk of tumor seeding (spillage of tumor cell clusters and their subsequent growth at a site adjacent to the original tumor) through cystosyntesis (a procedure in which needle is inserted into the urinary bladder of an animal through the abdomen and a sample of urine is removed), urine may be collected by free catch or catheterization.

Infant girls are born with two ovaries each containing about 1 million follicles, cell clusters in which single oocytes are nurtured and matured.

Now, Johns Hopkins scientists report direct evidence in mice for how those cell clusters control sleep and relay light cues about night and day throughout the body.

From this, the researchers asked if the spread of cancer is primarily derived from one cell or a cell cluster derived from the interactions between different cancer cell types.

Transplantation of pancreatic islets — cell clusters that contain insulin - producing cells — prevents severe, potentially life - threatening drops in blood sugar in people with type 1 diabetes, according to new research.

New clinical trial results show that transplantation of pancreatic islets — cell clusters that contain insulin - producing cells — prevents severe, potentially life - threatening drops in blood sugar in people with type 1 diabetes.

During this critical period of interaction, lymphoid cells become «activated» and thereafter can develop into antibody - producing cells independently of native antigen, macrophages, and cell clusters.

They're not developed enough to function as liver transplants, but the cell clusters do have important uses, says McGuckin.

Anatomists first discovered these cell clusters in rabbits around 1874, giving them the name milky spots.

During embryonic development individual cells and cell clusters can move over relatively long distances, and cell migration is also essential for wound healing and many immunological processes in adult animals.

Blood stem cell cultures: Blood stem cells from colonies (cell clusters) in vitro consisting of different blood cells.

Immediately after the cells were seeded, each well was checked under the microscope to verify the sparseness of each spherical culture, and only wells containing single - cell suspension with no cell cluster were chosen for tumor - sphere counting after 9 days.

As more and more studies deliver results showing activity similar to that of Friedl's migrating cell clusters, however, researchers have begun to question whether go - it - alone mesenchymal cells, which Friedl calls «lonely riders,» could really be the main culprits behind the metastatic disease that kills millions.

Hence, its members favor primary cell lines and try to avoid experiments with cultured cell lines, they favor three - dimensional cell cultures over two - dimensional cell monolayers that are cultivated on hard and flat surfaces and they try to maintain the three - dimensional context of plants, cell clusters, tissues sections and small animal embryos.

The cell clusters were dismantled and subsequently treated with a hematopoietic differentiation medium.

Cellulite is an accumulation of cell clusters that solidify and harden as the surrounding tissue loses its connectivity and elasticity, due to poor circulation and toxins stored in these deposits and excess lipids.