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Meaning of "syncytium"

A syncytium is a multinucleate cell that forms from the merging of individual cells
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  • A mass of cytoplasm containing many nuclei; a multinucleate cell resulting from cell fusions of mononuclear cells (for example, the cells that make up animal skeletal muscle).

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So we have an atrial syncytium that functions separately.
We call each of those functional units a syncytium.
Into an atrial syncytium and a ventricular syncytium.
Neutralizing antibody titers determined in syncytium inhibition assay.
Each syncytium was counted as a single infected cell.
The cell biology of the syncytium is well characterised.
The syncytium also appears to be normal.
A cytoplasm that contains many nuclei is called a syncytium.
Another important vertebrate syncytium is in the placenta of placental mammals.
Syncytium formation was determined as follows.
Inhibition of syncytium formation by mAb.
This is a special type of syncytium.
The syncytium can not function and soon dies.
It spreads its signal quickly over the entire atrial syncytium.
Syncytium development is also known to be similar for a variety of cyst nematodes.

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Digestion is accomplished by means of a syncytium that forms a vacuole around ingested food.
Intercellular bridges are cytoplasmic channels that interconnect clones of germ cells in a syncytium.
Hypertrophy of syncytium component cells and hyperplasia of cells near syncytia were observed.
Time lapse photography recorded synchronised nuclear division in a structure called a syncytium.
The trophoblast is characterized by lacunar spaces in the syncytium that form an intercommunicating network.
An increase in intracellular calcium concentration can propagate outwards through this functional syncytium.
Viral infection was scored by assessing the extent of syncytium formation at various times thereafter.
Syncytium is referred to cells or tissues wherein discrete single nucleated cells share a common cytoplasm.
The cells were checked daily at the light microscope for syncytium formation.
A representative multinuclear syncytium incorporating cells containing the fluorescent label is identified by the arrow.
Assays based on the cell lines described herein are sensitive to syncytium formation.
Each syncytium resulted from a single infectious HIV virion.
Later redifferentiation of existing plant cells forms a syncytium from which the animal feeds.
Cultures were monitored for syncytium formation of PBMC and RT activity in the culture supernatant.
These results indicate that cardiomyocyte sheets without scaffolds make a syncytium with a host myocardium.
HTLV envelope glycoproteins induce syncytium formation in vitro but their physiopathological effects are unclear.
Two derivatives of ATA were found to inhibit syncytium formation.
As used herein, a syncytium is a multinucleate mass of protoplasm produced by the merging of cells.
Myotube A developmental stage of a muscle fiber composed of a syncytium formed by fusion of myoblasts.
The cells of the fiber syncytium can be tetraploid, i.e. contain a quadruple complement of chromosomes.
F protein is a type I glycoprotein and is important for virus penetration and syncytium formation.
High titre inocula of two primary syncytium inducing HIV isolates were prepared.
Development and physiology of the oocyte-nurse cell syncytium.
However, the potential to resist syncytium formation induced by the HIV envelope glycoprotein was lost.
SerĂ¡ from these animals have neutralized HIVMN and RF isolates in syncytium inhibition assays.
Anti-Tn MAb was also found to inhibit syncytium formation between infected and uninfected cells.
They exhibit a bi-layered epithelium consisting of cytotrophoblasts with overlaying syncytium syncytiotrophoblast.
Syncytium caused by HSV-1 infection in Vero cells.
Ba subsidiary testing for infectious virus by rapid syncytium assay in cell culture ;.
Syncytium formation in Vero cells transfected with MV2EZ-L1.
In order to do this, some of the trophoblast cells fuse together to form a syncytium.
The tetrapartite chimeras were consistently incapable of mediating syncytium formation in the vaccinia-based assay.
Cardiac muscle fibers are interconnected by intercalated discs, [ 12 ] giving that tissue the appearance of a syncytium.
Dose dependent inhibition of syncytium formation by H52 IgG.
Both these molecules are known to inhibit HIV-1 infection and syncytium formation.

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