How to Use microenvironment in a Sentence

microenvironment

noun

• Light changes the microenvironment inside the frame, causing swelling and contraction that ages the work very quickly.
  — David Walters, The Cut, 20 Oct. 2017
• The fibers create a life-like microenvironment in which the cells can function and interact with each other just like normal cells would, while the hydrogel protects them from the body's immune response.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2013
• That’s because the microenvironment (the area directly around the tumor) consists of molecules and blood vessels that have become tainted.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Oct. 2022
• So far, these two methods have not worked as well as hoped—stem cells turn out to be difficult to manipulate, and the microenvironment of spinal-cord fluid is extremely complicated.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• The livers began as stem cells that are cultivated into skin and vascular cells that form a complete microenvironment.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
• Solid tumors are more difficult to access, and are often contained in a microenvironment that dampens the body’s immune response.
  — Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021
• These bacteria produce lactic acid, which creates an acidic microenvironment that allows only a few other bacteria and yeasts to grow.
  — ABC News, 4 Apr. 2021
• The sum total of the conditions inside our bodies, called the microenvironment, plays an important though dimly understood role in regulating how our cells react.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017
• This shows that although bacterial organisms come from common sources, each of the microenvironments somehow selects for distinct microbes, Gilbert said.
  — Tracy Staedter, Fox News, 30 May 2017
• There are many different components in the microenvironment that are affected.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Unlike cancers that begin in the blood, these types of cancers grow into a solid mass that produces a microenvironment of molecules, cells and structures that prevent T cells from entering into the tumor and triggering an immune response.
  — Gregory Allen, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2022
• Environmental Influences The genes of the fetus direct much of the placenta's development, but the microenvironment surrounding the organ also plays a vital role.
  — Adrian Erlebacher, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
• Since the tumor microenvironment can affect behavior of the tumor cells and their response to treatments, these racial differences could impact tumor biology and disease progression.
  — Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Rodney Infante, $1.05 million for changes in tumor microenvironment that promote cachexia.
  — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
• Patient tumor, immune, and connective tissue cells quickly form miniature tumors that retain the original microenvironment within thousands of these MOS, which can be used for testing many drug conditions.
  — Stephen Ibaraki, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• Once there, inflammation triggers the activation of immune cells called microglia, which go haywire, causing additional inflammation that disturbs the sensitive microenvironment of the brain.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Every valley, stream and forest, composes a microenvironment.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• The scientific community has only recently amassed a significantly greater understanding of how tumor biology and the tumor microenvironment play a role in the development of disease and response to therapy.
  — Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2019
• In more conventional experiments, ingredients are added to a test tube or vial only at the initial time point, and subsequent biological activity generates a constantly changing microenvironment.
  — Jeffrey Marlow, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2014
• Understanding how cellular fitness is gained within the tumor microenvironment is key to understand cooperativity among cancer cells as a way to collective resilience to nutrient starvation and therapies.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 June 2017
• Tumor microenvironment is the immediate cellular environment of the cancer cells, including surrounding blood vessels, immune cells, signaling molecules and the tissue matrix that surrounds tumor cells (i.e., the extracellular matrix).
  — Philly.com, 23 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024