How to Use intracellular in a Sentence

intracellular

adjective
  • That intracellular lipid mortar is partly composed of a form of lipids called ceramides.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 16 May 2018
  • T cells scan the intracellular environment and then, with the help of other parts of the defense system, target and destroy invaders such as viruses.
    Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • All the genes identified so far have to do with intracellular trafficking, or the transport of molecules within cells.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
  • That way, products can be shuttled directly to the next reaction, with no time to spiral off into the chaotic intracellular milieu.
    Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2015
  • Staff members at the Mayo Clinic write that symptoms of a listeria infection in a newborn can be subtle but can include: Listeria, an intracellular pathogen, can go through gut lining and into blood.
    Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Poinar has worked on amber fossils for decades, first discovering that amber could preserve intracellular structures in an organism trapped inside in a 1982 study.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Poinar has worked on amber fossils for decades, first discovering in a 1982 study that amber could preserve intracellular structures in an organism trapped inside.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The reduced cognitive function seen in Alzheimer’s is more closely correlated with the number and location of intracellular tau-tangles.
    Andrew Williams, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But Girault noted that the enzyme that catalyzes the attachment of dopamine to H3 is also regulated by levels of intracellular calcium.
    Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The intracellular domain describes receptors lying within the T cell.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • These all converged on one target, CRMP2, an intracellular protein that regulates neural networks.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • In previous studies, basic physiological assessments were used to determine how warmer storage worked; Cypel and his team, led by Aadil Ali, could study lung function at an intracellular level.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 15 Sep. 2021
  • When its external part contacts a particular feature on the surface of a cell, its intracellular part sends a signal through a cascade of molecules that eventually results in collection genes getting expressed.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2017
  • The Mystic dataset is 3.3 times higher resolution than Eyewire — each pixel is 5 nm— and unlike Eyewire, these new images reveal intracellular structures like mitochondria and vesicles.
    Guest, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2017
  • It is proposed that percussion decomposition of peroxynitrate compounds occurs in the intracellular fluids of the sensory organ and brain cells.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2014
  • Manipulating these intracellular signals, combined with the addition of a widening field of neuron growth factors, offers hope to ramp up the extent, speed and accuracy of regeneration.
    Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The neuron in the center (yellow) contains an abnormal intracellular accumulation of huntingtin called an inclusion body (orange).
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Mice treated with the antibodies developed fewer tumors and lived at least 20 percent longer than untreated ones, holding the promise that similar techniques might eventually target a suite of intracellular cancer proteins.
    Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2012
  • Are hypotheses involving intracellular enzyme pathways and the effects of microRNA on protein regulation so much less constrained than, say, solid-state physics and materials science?
    George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2014
  • Previous work suggested phase separation of the intracellular protein HP1 helped stretches of heterochromatin bunch up.
    Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The slow growth, together with its intracellular residence, make extracting M. leprae from human tissue incredibly difficult.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Together these early proteins create the intracellular conditions for replication and transcription.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Specifically, opioids activate an intracellular signaling protein called beta-arrestin, while the mitragynines do not.
    Mason Marks, STAT, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Others may improve brain health by supporting cerebral functions like molecular processes, neurotransmission, and intracellular signaling.
    Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Additionally, nootropic supplements support a range of cerebral functions that help with intracellular signaling, neurotransmission, and molecular processes.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • This innovative formula is designed to bolster muscle growth and athletic performance by specifically targeting the intracellular and intercellular signaling pathways involved in muscular adaptations.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Downstream signaling results from the generation of extracellular H(+), intracellular acidosis, and recovery from acidosis.
    Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2015

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