contractile
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"We linked each property to different contractile mechanisms and asked how they are connected to cancer cell escape and tumor aggressiveness."
From Science Daily • May 7, 2024
The research team found that some of the proteins in the muscle cells act as a temperature sensor, and that heating affects skeletal and cardiac contractile systems differently.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023
In a paper published today in Nature, researchers report refashioning Photorhabdus’s syringe—called a contractile injection system—so that it can attach to human cells and inject large proteins into them.
From Scientific American • Mar. 29, 2023
Muscle is contractile tissue and is derived from the mesodermal layer of embryonic germ cells.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The thrombus not only tends to become enlarged by further depositions of material from the blood, but it also tends to become diminished in size from the contractile properties of its fibrinous constituent.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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