skin cell
collocation in Englishmeaningsofskinandcell
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skin
noun
uk/skɪn/us/skɪn/
the natural outer layer that covers a person, animal, ...
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cell
noun[C]
uk/sel/us/sel/
the smallest basic unit of a plant ...
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(Definition ofskinandcellfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We are, after all, talking about askincellthat has simply lost its programming as skin tissue.
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Cloning of a singleskincellcould be used to produce inexhaustible amounts of cells and tissue from a patient with a certain disease.
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Keratinocytes, a type ofskincell, migrate with a rolling motion during the process of wound healing.
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One method of doing this is called somatic cell nuclear transfer and involves removing the nucleus from a somatic cell, usually askincell.
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This might be due to increasedskincellreplication at sites under stress where cells rapidly slough off or undergo compression or abrasion.
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The zoo also collectsskincellsamples of endangered animals or extinct species.
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It is thought that this gene plays an important role in the response to injury by the esophagus epithelial andskincell.
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The company started operating in 1993 and now cultures small biopsies into bigger volumes ofskincellsuspensions in as few as five days.
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Techniques have been developed which enable a 3-dimensional ' skin equivalent ' to be grown in tissue culture, made from different types of human skin cells.
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The primary skin cells (endothelial cells, fibroblasts and keratinocytes) were taken from 2 donors.
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Similarly, the increased incidence of cancer with a g e could be explained by hypothesising an accumulation of mutations in skin cells that persist throughout life.
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It involves the taking of voluntary samples—skin cells from inside the mouth, or head hair— from a targeted section of the population.
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For many scientists, the holy grail is to use not embryonic cells but adult cells—using my skin cells to develop new brain tissue to repair damage done by a stroke.
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This allows for skin cells to be reprogrammed into patient-specific stem cell lines.
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The cells in the stratum granulosum do not divide, but instead form skin cells called keratinocytes from the granules of keratin.
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They reach the outmost layer of the skin as flattened dead flaking skin cells we shed daily.
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One example is an enzyme called tyrosinase that, when expressed at high levels, transforms certain skin cells (e.g. melanocytes) into tumors called melanomas.
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