Sentences with phrase «cell surfaces contained»

Scientists suspected that cell surfaces contained some kind of recipient for hormones, but didn't know what they looked like or how they worked.

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Sumner - Rooney et al. found a comprehensive network connecting opsin - containing cells across the entire body surface of the stars.

Robyn Biti, Graeme Stewart of Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues report that they have found an HIV - infected homosexual man whose white blood cells contain a defective copy of a critical surface protein, called CCR5, that the virus uses to gain entry into the cells.

He determined that epithelial cells lining the brain's blood vessel walls contain a surface protein, or receptor, that can snag insulin, the hormone essential for metabolizing carbohydrates and fats.

Finally, the team grew the tissue in a three - dimensional system, which coaxed it into forming all the structures found in gut tissue, including the finger - like villi that protrude inwards to increase surface area, and recesses called crypts containing the intestinal stem cells that renew the gut lining weekly (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09691).

But the model organs described in the paper contained no cells, and they only mimicked the outside surface of body parts.

Pcdhαc2 is found in a cluster of genes that contain the blueprints for proteins that protrude from the surface of cells.

Every cell in the body contains receptors — essentially tiny locks — on its surface.

The team used light and electron microscopy to show that lymphatic endothelial cells, which line the interior surface of the lymph node capsule, contain a number of channels that penetrate the whole thickness of the cells.

The cortex is the thin layer of cells on the surface of the brain that governs many functions, and in elephants it contains a greater variety of cell types (such as the extensively branched neuron pictured above) than is found in more frequently studied animals such as rodents and primates.

The engineered cells contain an antibody - like protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which is designed to bind to a protein called CD19 found on the surface of B cells, including the cancerous B cells that characterize several types of leukemia.

For example, he's designing nanoparticles that bait specific immune system cells by displaying certain features on their surface; inside, the nanoparticles contain an antigen of a particular microbe.

That's because its surface protein haemagglutinin doesn't contain many short amino acid sequences — called epitopes — that trigger helper T - cells in the body to stimulate antibody - making cells.

The modified T cells contain a protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which is designed to target the CD19 protein found on the surface of B cells, including the cancerous B cells that characterize several types of leukemia and lymphoma.

Because the acoustic tweezers operate in a vertical channel that holds the cell - containing liquid, the researchers can trap the cells in suspension or allow them to settle onto the surface of the substrate.

The photovoltaic cells are virtually transparent because they are so thin and also because they are distributed around a surface that contains «a plurality of active photovoltaic zones that are separated by transparent zones,» according to a 2014 patent filing.

Human - associated bacteria disperse into and throughout the built environment by three primary mechanisms: (1) direct human contact with indoor surfaces; (2) bioaerosol particle emission from our breath, clothes, skin and hair; and (3) resuspension of indoor dust containing previously shed human skin cells, hair and other bacteria - laden particles.

The resulting CXCR4Δ18 protein, containing a six - residue deletion in ECL2, could potentially be expressed at the cell surface and support HIV infection.

These CARs contain two fused parts: an antibody that protrudes from the surface of a T - cell to recognise a protein on cancerous B - cells (commonly CD - 19) in the blood and a receptor inside the T - cell that sends messages to cellular machinery.

The cell surface (blue), or membrane, contains proteins (red) that receive signals (white).

The hESC colonies were mechanically divided and seeded as small aggregates onto 12 - well plates (CellBIND Surface, Corning, Inc., Corning, NY), containing gamma - irradiated human foreskin fibroblasts (CRL - 2429, ATCC, Manassas, VA) as feeder cells.

To characterize the isolate that replicated in HeLa cells, a 166 - bp RNA sequence containing the variable region C of the envelope (Env) surface protein was PCR - amplified from infected HeLa cell tissue culture supernatants.

Kelley, lead investigator on the study published today in Nature Chemistry, explained how her team has advanced a completely new approach using magnetic nanoparticles with DNA capture probes on their surface that can target circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in blood samples to see if the cells contains biomarkers associated with drug resistance.

A library of recombinant P. falciparum secreted and cell surface proteins was expanded by 20 additional proteins, which were shown to express at usable levels and contain conformational epitopes.

When α or β secretase cleave APP on the cell surface, the N - term mCherry containing domain is released into the medium and the 1:1 fluorescence intensity ratio between the red and green channels is lost.

PRO TIP: The dead skin cells that make up the surface of our skin usually contain between 30 per cent (maximum hydration) and 10 per cent (dehydration) of water.

These painful blisters contain white blood cells and can affect any part of the body, but they usually surface on the palms of the hands or soles of the feet.

Yogurt (like most dairy products) contains lactic acid (a natural form of Alpha - Hydroxy Acid), which exfoliates and smooths out your skin by gently dissolving the dead cells on the surface and stimulating cell - turnover.

In the absence of the arginine protein, a lower number of T helper cells contained their surface receptors, as a specific protein chain which is part of the receptor complex requires an adequate amount of arginine molecules.

In fact some of the most effective exfoliators out there don't contain beads, crystals, sugars or grains, they use antioxidants and acids to help remove surface skin cells and reveal a more youthful you.

The formula infused with charcoal draws out impurities like It also contains salicylic acid, which helps gently exfoliate dead skin cells on the surface of your skin.

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The surface of each red blood cell contains proteins called antigens.

The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is a region of the genome that contains genes that code for a group of cell surface proteins known as Dog leukocyte antigens (DLA).

The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is a region of the genome in dogs that contains genes that encode a group of cell surface proteins known as Dog leukocyte antigens (DLA).