How to Use fibroblast in a Sentence

fibroblast

noun

• The third requirement was for fibroblasts from opposite sides of a wound to find and touch each other.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• The most abundant protein in the body, collagen is made by fibroblasts.
  — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
• In both cases, the cells that flooded into each mouse’s wound weren’t the scar-producing EPFs, but the other kind of fibroblast, the one that tells the skin to regenerate, not just repair.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021
• With just a small amount of skin cells called fibroblasts, scientists can grow these so-called induced pluripotent stem cells, then direct them to form human brain tissue.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Using a cell known as a fibroblast, which helps with growth, along with collagen, as a scaffold, researchers printed the epidermis and dermis, the first two layers of skin.
  — Ellen Rosen New York Times, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
• Histogen produces its stem cells from skin cells called fibroblasts.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
• The method is also only compatible at the moment with certain cells such as fibroblasts.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
• That allows the fibroblasts to invade the cartilage and begin destroying it.
  — Carol Eustice, Verywell Health, 23 Aug. 2023
• The wound current calls out to the surrounding tissue, attracting helpers like healing agents, macrophages to mop up the mess, and collagen-weaving repair cells called fibroblasts.
  — Sally Adee, Quartz, 30 May 2019
• Today a paper in the journal Cell describes a similar direct transformation in mice, from a type of structural cell called a fibroblast to heart cells.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2010
• Using methods that start with tissue cells called fibroblasts, researchers can engineer stem cells, which are cells capable of becoming any kind of body cell.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2018
• The liver, for example, contains five major cell types, including immune cells, blood vessel cells, and fibroblasts.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2020
• Instead of ink, however, experts attached gold arrays to fibroblasts, cells that sustain body tissue.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
• The real virtuosos in regeneration were cells in skin called fibroblasts and periskeletal cells, which normally surround bone.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• Novoheart’s scientists placed millions of heart cells genetically reprogrammed from stem cells into a mold along with some secret sauce: a dose of dermal fibroblasts, the cells that help your skin repair itself.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 27 June 2018
• Gallo and his colleagues showed in Science Translational Medicine that a structural cell type called a fibroblast (which is not typically considered an immune cell) contributes to the facial face-off.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
• Scientists theorize the surge in fibroblasts is caused by immune system substances involved in the overactive inflammation of RA.
  — Carol Eustice, Verywell Health, 23 Aug. 2023
• For years, researchers suspected that tattoos worked by permanently staining fibroblasts, the cells that synthesize collagen, under the surface of our skin.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• But by secreting these inhibitory proteins, the fibroblasts actually induce a repair mechanism that encourages the nerve cells to grow.
  — Kristen Philipkoski, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2002
• That's because collagen comes from a type of cell called a fibroblast, which is responsible for producing connective tissue and making collagen.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2023
• Kommagani also wants to know the mechanism by which Fusobacterium enters endometriosis lesions and turns on the harmful fibroblasts, since it wasn’t clearly delineated in the paper.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 14 June 2023
• Radio-frequency devices use heat on deeper tissue to activate fibroblasts.
  — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 27 Mar. 2019
• Research also suggests that exposure to infrared radiation may help boost natural production of collagen and elastin by stimulated fibroblasts, leading to plumper, smoother skin, and as a treatment for photoaging.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2023
• Topical retinoids ramp up collagen production in fibroblasts.
  — Allure, 17 Aug. 2018
• Researchers at Harvard and in Hong Kong inserted this itty bitty crystal inside a human embryonic fibroblast cell and successfully took its temperature.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2013
• The antibodies also make matters worse by attaching to receptors on the macrophages, which in response spit out transforming growth factor β, an immune messenger that activates collagen-producing fibroblasts, leading to fibrosis of tissues.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2017
• Histogen converts the fibroblasts by placing them into simulated embryonic conditions, including suspending them in liquid and low oxygen.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024