intercellular space

intercellular space

[¦in·tər′sel·yə·lər ¦spās]
(histology)
A space between adjacent cells.
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These gaps are bound by thickened cell membranes from which short and long processes extend into the intercellular space.
Primary Intraprostatic Synovial Sarcoma
Increased intercellular space could prevent freezing inside cells, therefore, the relative tightness of the leaf tissue structure is considered to be associated with plant cold tolerance (Yu et al.
Effects of Low Temperature on Leaf Anatomy and Photosynthetic Performance in Different Genotypes of Wheat Following a Rice Crop
The first study found that topical fluticasone therapy at a dose of 880 mcg twice daily for 2 months helped correct esophageal spongiosis, or dilated intercellular space, in patients with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE).
Steroids helped, PPIs didn't in eosinophilic esophagitis
Where the intercellular space was grossly expanded, the desmosomes appeared to be floating freely within the intercellular space without such connections.
The elusive gene for keratolytic winter erythema
The reduced intercellular space can ensure the distribution, even limited, of messages between the chromaffine cells.
Adrenal chromaffine-cell behaviour in stress
Export and import proteins push the auxin out of one cell into the intercellular space and then into the next cell and so on until the auxin eventually reaches its target site," pointed Schwechheimer.
Hormone auxin helps plants to grow towards light
Chemical synaptic transmission involves the release of specific molecules, neurotransmitters, which diffuse through the intercellular space and interact with specific receptors located on an adjacent neuron.
Clearing a path through the brain
The humoral stage evolves into the matrix stage, where unprocessed toxicity is deposited into intercellular space, leading to chronic inflammatory and early degenerative changes.
Bioregulatory medicine: new medical paradigm
In fact, the selection of appropriate values for the parameters VST, C and AT successively eliminates the gray levels variations due to the intercellular space, neurons, g-d bodies and noise and allows the identification and preservation of the specific labels.
Digital processing of in situ hybridization images: identification and spatial allocation of specific labels
Blind pit and intercellular space in Acacia mangium.
Impact of biological incising to improve phenolic resin retention and hardness of various wood species
After myocardial damage, H-FABP is released into the intercellular space and appears in the bloodstream (4).
Role of heart-type fatty acid-binding protein in early detection of acute myocardial infarction
Thus, the reflectance energy decrease in greenbug-treated plants may be the result of cellular lysis and filling of intercellular space with cellular debris.
Leaf Reflectance Spectra of Cereal Aphid-Damaged Wheat

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