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infolding /in·fold·ing/ (in-fold´ing)
1. the folding inward of a layer of tissue, as in the formation of the neural tube in the embryo.
2. the enclosing of redundant tissue by suturing together the walls of the organ on either side of it.


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This hypothesis is supported by findings of reductions in the terminal branching of motoneurons and the length of the end-plates in the soleus muscles of 28-month-old female Wistar rats[3] and of retraction of the terminal boutons from the sarcolemma and destruction of the sarcolemma infoldings in 36-month-old rat soleus muscles.
99-106) reported on the finding that a seven-week-old aborted embryo presented infoldings of the hemispheric neuroepithelium, cranioschisis, exencephaly and excessive vascularity with endothelial proliferation --in short, severe malformation of the brain.
But in cones, the light-sensing molecules are located on deep infoldings of the outer membrane--so a messenger chemical might not be required.
 
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