Sentences with phrase «finite number of cells»

Currently, primary hepatocytes are the most common cell model, but their utility is constrained by large variation between donors and a finite number of cells harvestable from each donor.

Currently, primary hepatocytes are the most common cell model, but their utility is fundamentally constrained by the substantial variation between donors and the finite number of cells that are harvestable from each donor.

Not exact matches

In contrast to men who produce new sperm cells throughout their life women are born with a finite number of oocytes.

«Earlier menopause has been reported in women undergoing radioactive iodine treatment, and given the finite number of primordial follicles women start with at birth, radiation injury to germinal cells is not expected to be reversible,» she cautioned.

Understanding this process - which is particularly important when cells are first taking on specialized identities such as nerve cells, muscle, skin, and so on - helps explain how complex organisms can arise from a finite number of genes.

The body can only create a finite number of antibody - producing white blood cells in a given time period.

Unlike sperm cells, which are replenished throughout a man's lifetime, women have a finite number of egg cells.

They produce facsimiles of themselves (by a process known as mitosis) a finite number of times before the process stops for good and the cell dies.

He observed that normal human cells had a finite lifespan in vitro and could execute only a limited number of cell divisions.

If I want to be sure that my finite element analysis (FEA) of a mechanical system, for instance, is giving a reasonable answer, I first check it is consistent with a simplified analytical approximation and then change the analysis parameters, such as cell number and shape, to see that my FEA solution doesn't change drastically.