parenchyma

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This is the region where blood cells can migrate in and out of the circulation and is in contact with the splenic parenchyma, and a putative site where passing peripheral blood monocytes could phagocytize AA-amyloid.

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  1. noun Anatomy The tissue characteristic of an organ, as distinguished from associated connective or supporting tissues.
  2. noun Botany The primary tissue of higher plants, composed of thin-walled cells and forming the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruit, and the pith of stems.

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  • Macrophages were identified in the adipose parenchyma (CD68 within blood vessels were excluded), when cytoplasmic staining for CD68 was present along with an identifiable mononuclear nucleus, and presented as the number per 100 adipocytes (\% macrophages) or as number of cells per 12×400 fields, as indicated. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • We have recently shown that, not even v-IhNSCs could induce tumor formation when transplanted into the brain parenchyma or intravenously into immunodeficient mice —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Results show that in normal rats, 14. 5+ / − 0. 6\% cells localized in the periventricular parenchyma, while, in EAE rats, more than 40\% of the injected cells localized in the periventricular parenchyma (42+ / − 7\%, p = 0.008, Mann and Whitney test). —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • This is the region where blood cells can migrate in and out of the circulation and is in contact with the splenic parenchyma, and a putative site where passing peripheral blood monocytes could phagocytize AA-amyloid. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • We postulated that the lack of dendritic cells (DCs) within the brain parenchyma is central to the failure of glioma cell killing approaches to stimulate a strong adaptive antiglioma immune response. —  PLoS Medicine: New Articles
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  1. New Latin, from Greek parenkhuma, visceral flesh, from parenkhein, to pour in beside : para-, beside; see para-1 + en-, in; see en in Indo-European roots + khein, to pour; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. parenchyme =Spanish Parénquima =Portuguese parenchyma =Italian parenchima, from New Latin parenchyma (see def.), from Greek παρέγχυμα, the peculiar tissues of the lungs, liver, kidney, and spleen (so called by Erasistratus as if formed separately by the blood of veins that run into those parts), from παρεγχεῖν, pour in beside, from παρά, beside, + ἐγχεῖν, pour in: see enchymatous.
 

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