Sentences with word «pseudopodia»

Inhibition of pseudopodia formation by cytochalasin B blocked fibriI uptake.

What seems doggedly to persist is a taking into account of factors in the environment — the amoeba has pseudopodia constantly reaching out to, constantly testing, the environment.

These thin pseudopodia probe the environment, move the foraminifera over surfaces, and engulf prey.

Foraminifera deploy their numerous membrane extensions, called pseudopodia, to find, capture and envelop prey.

Michael's image shows COS - 7 cells ectopically expressing the Fcγ - receptor performing phagocytosis on beads opsonised with Immunoglobulin G. His false - colour scanning electron micrograph shows filopodia and pseudopodia projecting around the beads, which will subsequently be fully engulfed.

Cells in the brain aren't mobile in the same sense, but pituitary cells use pseudopodia to coordinate with each other and move closer to blood vessels for hormone release.

This study suggests that pseudopodia function differently in the pituitary glands of tame foxes than in aggressive ones.

If, however, you are lucky enough to have your attention momentarily distracted at the crucial moment by, say, a gorgeous pair of legs (tentacles, pseudopodia, according to phyllum and / or personal inclination) or a bomb going off in your vicinty, or by suddenly spotting an extremely rare species of beetle crawling along a nearby twig, then in your astonishment you will miss the ground completely and remain bobbing just a few inches above it in what might seem to be a slightly foolish manner.

In the Globigerinoides bulloides foraminiferan at left, the pseudopodia are retracted.

«Yingchun has developed methods to analyze both low and high abundant phosphotyrosine proteins from the pseudopodia,» says Klemke.

Note the colocalization (yellow) of focal adhesions (red) and GFP Lasp (green) at the leading front of the pseudopodium.

The scientists developed a system that facilitates the separation and isolation of the pseudopodium (PD, or leading part of the cell) and the cell body (CB) compartments of chemotaxing cells for proteomic analysis using microporous filters.

«I kept finding a bunch of genes related to pseudopodia, which was a huge surprise,» Hekman recalls.