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multiciliated

  • a word derived from ciliate.
    ciliate
    noun
    any protozoan of the phylum Ciliophora (or in some classification schemes, class Ciliata), as those of the genera Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Stentor, and Vorticella, having cilia on part or all of the surface.

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"Somehow, this strict cancer-preventing rule, no more than four centrioles per cell, is very specifically broken in multiciliated cells to make hundreds of centrioles."

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2024

Its expression was middling in stem cells, but notably high in maturing, multiciliated cells.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2024

Indeed, when E2F7 was completely disabled, or knocked out, in an animal model, multiciliated cells failed to develop correctly, leading to problems in the brain.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2024

The scientists then found that multiciliated cells that lacked E2F7 started to synthesize new DNA -- a hallmark of cell division.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 2024

Zeospores; 2, 4, or multiciliated active automobile cells—gonidia—discharged from the mother cells or plants without impregnation, and germinating directly.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various

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