proliferative
- a word derived from proliferate.
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In the new study, the research team used cell-based, tissue-based, and preclinical models of proliferative vitreoretinopathy and abnormal blood vessel growth to show that mRNA-based therapeutics can be used safely in the eye.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
Their limbs contain stem cells restricted to specific cell-type needs, a process that appears to operate similarly to the repair-specific proliferative cells observed in the jellyfish.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
After about five days, estrogen levels rise and the menstrual cycle enters the proliferative phase.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
These biological and biochemical characteristics are in contrast to those of cancer cells, which are proliferative and relatively undifferentiated, and prefer glycolysis to oxidative phosphorylation as their primary mode of ATP generation.
From Nature ● Mar. 21, 2017
The vital reaction induced by such irritation results in dilatation of the vessels of the part, emigration of leucocytes, transudation of lymph, and certain proliferative changes in the fixed tissue cells.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
