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neuroblast

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neuroblast /neu·ro·blast/ (noor´o-blast) an embryonic cell that develops into a nerve cell or neuron.
neu·ro·blast (nr-blst)
n.
An embryonic cell from which a nerve cell develops.
neuroblast
[noo͡r′əblast]
Etymology: Gk, neuron + blastos, germ
any embryonic cell that develops into a functional neuron; an immature nerve cell. neuroblastic, adj.
neuroblast [noor´o-blast]
an embryonic cell from which nervous tissue is formed.
neuroblast
an embryonic cell from which nervous tissue is formed.
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Neuroblast proliferation is essentially complete before 28 weeks, whereas neuronal migration and aggregation continue through the first half of the third trimester.
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Thus a neuroblast which may be indistinguishable from another cell in the beginning would become increasingly different from the others as the process of differentiation continues and eventually becomes a nervous tissue.
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The procedure for expressing the third domain were to put together a DNA construct and inject it into the neuroblast of the fly.
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