cell growth
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcellandgrowth
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cell
noun[C]
uk/sel/us/sel/
the smallest basic unit of a plant ...
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growth
noun
uk/ɡrəʊθ/us/ɡroʊθ/
The growth of a person, animal, or plant is its process of increasing ...
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(Definition ofcellandgrowthfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The effects on cell division determine the number of cells, whereas the effects oncellgrowthcan affect the size and complexity of the neuron.
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They have been shown to be produced endogenously in the body and to regulatecellgrowth, differentiation and survival in neuronal and non-neuronal cells.
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Therefore, the host immune system can play the dual role of tumour cell elimination and tumourcellgrowthpromotion.
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This verifies that the necessary genes forcellgrowthand division were able to function and that the cytoplasmic membrane remained fluid enough for growth.
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Gangliosides on the surface of plasma membranes participate in many cell-cell interactions, including signal transduction,cellgrowthand differentiation.
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Boundary-value problems such as this one arise in models ofcellgrowthwhich include the effects of dispersion.
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In this section, we focus on how these biological effects might impact on cancercellgrowth, progression and response to therapy.
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Several sphingolipid molecules are able to modulatecellgrowth, differentiation and death.
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Cells are seeded into an environmental chamber andcellgrowthand metabolism can be monitored using intracellular fluorescent molecular probes.
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To see more clearly what this implies, one may approximatecellgrowthand division by an intrinsic instability of plasmids.
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To understand the importance of sequential therapy, we must revisit tumorcellgrowthkinetics.
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It involves changes in at least four cellular processes-cellgrowth, cell death, cell migration and production or degradation of extracellular matrix.
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Understanding the function and interactions of the family as a whole, in bothcellgrowthcontrol and carcinogenesis, will be important.
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Interestingly, several epigenetic factors involved in cancerouscellgrowthchanged greatly after fertilization.
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Two apparent human endothialcellgrowthfactors from human hepatoma cells are tumor-associated proteinase inhibitors.
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Regulation of ovariancellgrowththrough the local production of transforming growth factor-alpha by theca cells.
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This model could be used to study how glioblastoma tumour cells co-opt the host stromal cells to enhance tumourcellgrowth, survival, and invasion.
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Silencing of human phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein 4 sensitizes breast cancer cells to tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced apoptosis andcellgrowtharrest.
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At present, it is thought that the key factor controlling the failure ofcellgrowthis at the ends of the chromosomes, called the telomeres.
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An environmental chamber coupled to a laser scanning confocal microscope is being used to monitorcellgrowthand metabolism under different conditions.
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It is important to characterizecellgrowthand metabolism using lab-on-a-chip technology and compare it to analyses using genomic, microbiological, biochemical, and genetic methods.
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Alteration in matrix architecture may therefore release biologically active regulators ofcellgrowthand proliferation.
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This is not unexpected because committed slendercellgrowthrate is proportional to both (see equation 6).
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