diffusible
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Much research in cell biology has traditionally centered on understanding how cells react to chemical signals such as diffusible signaling molecules.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024
The electron transport chain is composed of four large, multiprotein complexes embedded in the inner mitochondrial membrane and two small diffusible electron carriers shuttling electrons between them.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Pirhonen, M., Flego, D., Heikinheimo, R. & Palva, E. T. A small diffusible signal molecule is responsible for the global control of virulence and exoenzyme production in the plant pathogen Erwinia carotovora.
From Nature ● Nov. 14, 2017
All diffusible substances circulating in the blood pass through the intervening layer of celloidin.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 16, 2013
The digestive function exists in all animals merely to bring the food into a soluble, diffusible form, so that it can pass to all parts of the body and be used for fuel or growth.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason
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