Sentences with phrase «immature state»

Most of the pollen that is likely tickling your nose and making your eyes water is being dispersed in a sexually immature state consisting of only two cells (a body cell and a reproductive cell) and is not yet fertile.

These wounded or immature states come from growing up in a less than nurturing family system.

To protect the fruit from undesired eaters, plenty of capsaicin is already present in their immature state.

The pods are green in their immature state, maturing to yellow, orange, or red.

On the contrary, a great number of vegetables are frozen in an immature state (Boyle et al., 1977).

One factor keeping cells in this immature state is the PTEN gene, which suppresses a signalling pathway involved in cell growth.

A separate study published in the same journal shows that male mutants experience a similar fate, their spermatocytes permanently locked in an immature state.

In schizophrenia, too many spines remain in the immature state.

This year, scientists published more than a dozen landmark papers on the remarkable abilities of stem cells, which can reproduce while in their immature state and also become more specialized tissues.

Similarly Jiang et al 118 reported that MSC maintain DC in an immature state and show that MSC inhibit up regulation of IL - 12p70.

Interestingly, treatment with a selective and potent small - molecule inhibitor of Setd7 activity (PFI - 2)[4] impaired - catenin translocation and myogenic gene expression, and thereby promoted the maintenance of MuSCs in an immature state.

The team, headed by professor Juan Carlos Ispizúa Belmonte, Ph.D., of the Gene Expression Laboratory and including professor Fred Gage, Ph.D., of the Laboratory of Genetics, demonstrates how a DNA - binding protein called Nanog coaxes mouse ES cells trying to differentiate into muscle cells back into an immature state.

Gage and Ghosh discuss how human skin cells induced to return to an immature state («induced pluripotent stem cells» or IPS cells) are revolutionizing our understanding and treatment of mental and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, as well as leading to new models of drug development for all diseases.

Most other small pets are born in an immature state: blind, deaf and helpless.

MEIM - R results correlated positively with those EOMEIS - 2 subscales that indicate a mature degree of personality identity, and the results correlated negatively with the diffusion subscale that accounts for the immature state of personality.