chalones

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chalones

POLYPEPTIDEs or glycoproteins, released by actively-dividing cells that inhibits chromosomal reproduction (MITOSIS) in cells of the tissue in which they are formed, thus controlling a tendency to HYPERPLASIA.

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Antes de que estos chalones iniciaran con sus labores de interpretes, ademas de saber bien el espanol para que la informacion que se trasmitia de una persona a otra, debian ser bautizados y recordarles la importancia del secreto de confesion y lo que ello implicaba, para asi no tener problemas posteriores con los esclavos y los bautizos como tal, ya que era importante que los bozales supieran lo que los jesuitas estaban haciendo.

Misiones, misioneros y bautizos a traves del atlantico: evangelizacion en Cartagena de Indias y en los reinos del Kongo y Ngola. siglo XVII

The lipoxins were the first identified and recognized endogenous anti-inflammatory lipid mediators which can function as "braking signals" for neutrophils or chalones in inflammation [30].

Resolution of PMA-induced skin inflammation involves interaction of IFN-[gamma] and ALOX15

Thumann & Bustos-Obregon (1978) postulated that this response is mediated by the spermatogonial chalones, an inhibitor of spermatogonial mitosis produced by spermatogenic differentiated cells.