Sentences with phrase «cell shape during»

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During intense or extensive exertion, the sickle hemoglobin can change the shape of red blood cells from round to quarter - moon, or «sickle.»

The scientists» findings have wide implications in the effort to understand how organs are sculpted into their shapes and how cells respond to their native mechanical environment both in healthy tissues and during disease.

During her postdoctoral work, Bissell noticed that removing mammary cells from a mouse and putting them into a culture dish caused them to lose not only their normal in vivo shapes, but also their ability to secrete milk.

Apart from advancing our understanding of how plants regulate their growth and shape, this research presents new questions for stem cell researchers in regards to cell size checkpoints and their importance during organism development.

Lin observed that this change in nucleus shape is similar to what occurs during cell division and hypothesized that there may be similar underlying mechanisms behind cell division and regeneration.

The orientation - specific edge - apposing activity of these «border cells» is maintained when the environment is stretched and during testing in enclosures of different size and shape in different rooms.

This relationship is perhaps most striking during the first stages of embryogenesis, when cells change in size and shape several fold in the absence of growth.

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Our insight will substantially enhance our understanding of dynamic cell shape regulation for instance in the context of cell migration as in cancer metastasis or during morphogenesis.

«The plasma membrane also dynamically changes shape during cell migration, cancer cell invasion, cell division, nutrient uptake, and entry of pathogens and viruses into cells,» Shin explains.

During interphase they influence cell shape, motility, polarity and intracellular transport.

In the light of a review detailing the role of these genes in the cell shape changes leading to invagination, and of recent findings showing the expression of twist as mechanically sensitive, we suggest that the expression of twist in the mesoderm could alternatively be maintained by mechanical strains developed during mesoderm invagination.

«Shape changes occur during cell division, when a mother cell divides into two daughter cells during embryo development.

During the culture of these cells, we noticed a change in cell morphology from the cobble stone - like shape typical of epithelial cells to a more spindle - like and scattered appearance (Figure 2A, lower panel), indicating these cells may be undergoing EMT.

Within the Maze, during 1975, several H - shaped buildings, called H - blocks were constructed, each with four small wings of 25 cells.