How to Use cell body in a Sentence

cell body

noun

• At the front are the dendrites, spidery and often dense projections that all converge and meet at the cell body.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• So the microbe must somehow get the electrons out of its cell body and attach them to rust particles.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Venter has already transferred the genome of one species into the cell body of another.
  — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2010
• Those signals would then get combined in the cell body, which would determine how the neuron as a whole would respond.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
• Gray matter, on the other hand, is the pinkish-gray tissue rich in neuronal cell bodies.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 July 2019
• The dendrites transmit signals to the neuron’s cell body, where the signals are integrated.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021
• Indeed, every 3-cm increase in axon length is calculated to add more than double the volume of the neuronal cell body to the axon each day.
  — Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
• This 2009 image reveals the main cell body, or soma, or a spiny neuron, with its dendrites radiating away.
  — Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2010
• The reconstructed map, described today in Nature, showed that while one type of bipolar cell connects to the amacrine cells' filaments close to the cell body, another does do so farther away along the length of the filaments.
  — Mo Costandi, Scientific American, 5 May 2014
• Second, the electrical signals those cells generate flow through neurons in one direction: branching dendrites receive the pulse, pass it to the main cell body and then along their axons—long projections that can connect distant parts of the brain.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
• The cell body contains structures and organelles (’mini-organs’ inside the neuron) that keep it alive and carry out various cellular and genetic processes.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• By definition, such cells are proficient at concentrating gene products into vesicles and then removing them from the cell body through secretion.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
• Cajal also developed the Theory of Dynamic Polarization, which poses that information flows in one direction — into a neuron’s dendrites, through its cell body, and out its axon.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024