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cytoplasmic

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cytoplasmic
pertaining to or included in cytoplasm.

cytoplasmic inclusions
include secretory inclusions (enzymes, acids, proteins, mucosubstances), nutritive inclusions (glycogen, lipids), pigment granules (melanin, lipofuscin, hemosiderin). See also inclusion body.
cytoplasmic inheritance
the cytoplasmic organelles, chloroplasts and mitochondria contain DNA which contains a number of genes. These extrachromosomal genes are transmitted to daughter cells via cytoplasm. Called also maternal inheritance.
cytoplasmic nuclear inclusion
cytoplasmic skeleton
includes microtubules, centrioles, cilia, flagellae.


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Necrosis is characterized by the early loss of outer membrane function, rapid cytoplasmic swelling and disintegration, and release of cell contents into surrounding tissues, which evoke an intense inflammatory response.
macrophages with vacuolated cytoplasm) with pigmented cytoplasmic granules, presumably containing hemosiderin, were abundant within papillary fronds, which were lined with ciliated low cuboidal epithelium (figure 4).
IL1R2 is one of the receptors of inflammatory cytokine ILl; however, because of the lack of a cytoplasmic signaling domain, binding to IL1R2 attenuates ILl-mediated signal transduction, such as the IL1B-induced increase in NF-[kappa]B activation (Re et al.
 
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