Sentences with phrase «surrounded by other cells»

Insulin - producing cells (yellow) produce the hormone insulin (green spheres) and are surrounded by other cells in the pancreas.

Cancer cells are surrounded by other cells called «stromal cells», which can make up 80 per cent of pancreatic cancer tissue.

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5 The analogy is imperfect because motile cells such as white blood cells are not connected to other cells and so, according to this model, would be completely surrounded by interstitial stuff.

«By observing entorhinal - hippocampal neurons based on their birthdate, we realized that these cells were somehow special and very different from the other surrounding cell types, which was instrumental to find out how and to what extent they influenced the assembly of the network.»

Further animal studies by Kipnis and others show that learning new tasks triggers a mild stress response within the brain, which prompts CD4 cells to rally to the meninges, the membranes that surround the brain.

They are surrounded by two other types of cells, which become the placenta and another structure, the yolk sac.

«There's a school of thought that the reason enzymes work better in cells than in solution is because the concentration of enzymes surrounded by other biomolecules in cells is about 1,000 to 10,000 time more than in standard biochemistry lab conditions,» said Eric Ackerman, PNNL chief scientist and senior author of a related study that appears today in the journal Nanotechnology.

In the other large paintings, the descending, looping forms reappear in varying guises, such as chains of plant or animal cells, surrounded by structures redolent of veins, leaves, and trees.