Definitions

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  • In biology, surrounding or enveloping a cell or cells: as, the pericellular spaces or the pericellular accumulations of leucocytes, connective tissue, etc., in certain diseases.

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  • adjective (Anat.) Surrounding a cell.

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  • adjective anatomy Surrounding a cell.

Etymologies

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peri- +‎ cellular

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Examples

  • The detoxicating process acts exclusively in the body fluids, in the blood, in the lymphs and in the pericellular lymphatic areas.

    Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • We showed that also in high cell density conditions, which create a local pericellular hypoxic microenvironment, bcl-2 overexpression determines an increase of HIF-1α protein expression and

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Daniela Trisciuoglio et al. 2010

  • Figure 1C, the gentle shaking drastically reduced the high density-dependent HIF-1α induction in bcl-2 transfectants, thus indicating that oxygen pericellular gradient is an important factor contributing in the increase of HIF-1α expression by bcl-2 in high cell density conditions.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Daniela Trisciuoglio et al. 2010

  • Strikingly, of the patients whose liver tissue was analyzed, those who were observed to have severe nocturnal hypoxemia also exhibited "ballooning" of their hepatocytes and a pericellular fibrosis of the liver, indicating liver injury.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • Strikingly, of the patients whose liver tissue was analyzed, those who were observed to have severe nocturnal hypoxemia also exhibited "ballooning" of their hepatocytes and a pericellular fibrosis of the liver, indicating liver injury.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • Chedotal A, Sotelo C (1993) The 'creeper stage' in cerebellar climbing fiber synaptogenesis precedes the 'pericellular nest'-ultrastructural evidence with parvalbumin immunocytochemistry.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Annarita de Luca et al. 2009

  • "A model for strain amplification in the actin cytoskeleton of osteocytes due to fluid drag on pericellular matrix,"

    News from The Scientist 2009

  • Anti Tribal Gentile Adipocyte Information News About Adipocyte A pericellular collagenase directs the D development of white adipose tissue Medical Research

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  • Adipocyte Information News About Adipocyte A pericellular collagenase directs the D development of white adipose tissue Medical Research News In the journal Cell researchers report the news medical net keyword Adipocyte Adipocyte Information News About Adipocyte

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  • The monolayers exposed to DMEM for 6 h showed intact cell junctions with regular distribution of ZO-1 on the pericellular tight junctions of the Caco-2 monolayers (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ram Naresh et al. 2009

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