Significados de elastic fiber em inglês

This produces an elastic fiber intermediate in stiffness between twine and whalebone.

Fibulin-4 is an extracellular matrix protein essential for elastic fiber formation.

The functional relationship between ABCC6 and elastic fiber calcification is unknown.

Mechanical forces associated with cell movement help shape the forming, extracellular elastic fiber network.

Direct binding of the drug to collagen precursors also affects elastic fiber assemblage and maturation.

We found a differential role of FBLN4 in elastic fiber assembly, where it functions mainly in large conduit arteries.

Therefore, we compared the deposition of elastic fiber proteins in cultures of fibroblasts derived from PXE and unaffected individuals.

The expression of tropoelastin and other elastic fiber-associated genes was not significantly modulated by the presence of PXE serum.

Homocysteinemia in animals is associated with disruption of the elastic fiber component of the extracellular matrix, resulting in vascular complications.

Fibulin-5 thus serves as an adaptor molecule between monomeric elastin and the matrix scaffold to aid in elastic fiber assembly.

Lysyl-oxidase is a copper dependent enzyme crucial to the dermal elastic fiber cross-linking, which is strongly affected by DPA copper depletion.

Future studies investigating tissue-specific elastic fiber assembly may lead to novel therapeutic interventions for ARCL1B and other disorders of elastic fiber assembly.

Elastin cross-linking and total elastin content were unchanged in large or small arteries, whereas elastic fiber architecture was abnormal in large vessels.

The silk comes from two little orifices in the head in the form of a glutinous gum which hardens into a fine elastic fiber.

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.

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.