Usage of "elastic fiber"

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An extracellular matrix part that consists of an insoluble core of polymerized tropoelastin monomers and a surrounding mantle of microfibrils.

Termes relacionats

cellular component

fibra elàstica

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Examples for "yellow fiber"

The lungs were removed and examined for defects in elastin fiber formation. 
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Elastin fiber density is unchanged in the glaucomatous nerve heads that we studied. 
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PGS nanofibers are an inexpensive and synthetic material that mimics the chemical and mechanical environment provided by elastin fibers. 
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Its normal circulating concentration functions to maintain the elasticity of the lung by preventing the hydrolytic destruction of elastin fibers. 
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It may also partly be due to an increase of elastin fibers in the dermis through the stimulation of fibroblast activity. 
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Still there is an age-dependent increase of elastic fibre surface density, mostly due to an alteration of the fibres. 
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Any number of these are strung at pleasure upon the long elastic fibre that traverses the branches of the cocoanut tree. 
 Typee: A Romance of the South Seas 

Taken together, we conclude that domains 16-17 are important for self-association of tropoelastin and elastic fibre formation. 
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Heterozygote carriers had changes in dermal elastic fibre organization, morphology and labelling midway between those seen in PXE skin and normal skin. 
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This study is the first to discover that domains of elastin play an essential role in elastic fibre formation by facilitating homotypic interactions. 
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Ús de elastic fiber en anglès

This produces an elastic fiber intermediate in stiffness between twine and whalebone. 
 Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics 

Fibulin-4 is an extracellular matrix protein essential for elastic fiber formation. 
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The functional relationship between ABCC6 and elastic fiber calcification is unknown. 
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Mechanical forces associated with cell movement help shape the forming, extracellular elastic fiber network. 
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Direct binding of the drug to collagen precursors also affects elastic fiber assemblage and maturation. 
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We found a differential role of FBLN4 in elastic fiber assembly, where it functions mainly in large conduit arteries. 
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Therefore, we compared the deposition of elastic fiber proteins in cultures of fibroblasts derived from PXE and unaffected individuals. 
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The expression of tropoelastin and other elastic fiber-associated genes was not significantly modulated by the presence of PXE serum. 
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Homocysteinemia in animals is associated with disruption of the elastic fiber component of the extracellular matrix, resulting in vascular complications. 
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Fibulin-5 thus serves as an adaptor molecule between monomeric elastin and the matrix scaffold to aid in elastic fiber assembly. 
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Lysyl-oxidase is a copper dependent enzyme crucial to the dermal elastic fiber cross-linking, which is strongly affected by DPA copper depletion. 
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Future studies investigating tissue-specific elastic fiber assembly may lead to novel therapeutic interventions for ARCL1B and other disorders of elastic fiber assembly. 
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Elastin cross-linking and total elastin content were unchanged in large or small arteries, whereas elastic fiber architecture was abnormal in large vessels. 
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The silk comes from two little orifices in the head in the form of a glutinous gum which hardens into a fine elastic fiber. 
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Compared with the controls, the treated samples exhibited reduced overall cell infiltration, evidence of fibroblasts, stimulation of cell proliferation and collagen and elastic fiber regeneration. 
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To study the dynamics of elastic fiber assembly, mammalian cells were transfected with a cDNA construct encoding bovine tropoelastin in frame with the Timer reporter. 
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