The phrase "a coating of cell" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, possibly intended to refer to a "coating of cells" or "a cell coating."
Example: "The researchers applied a coating of cells to the surface to enhance its biocompatibility."
Alternatives: "a layer of cells" or "a cell layer."
Such tumors are protected by a coating of cells known as macrophages, which keep the immune system's main assassins, the T-cells, from entering.
Niakan wants to use the procedure to find genes at play in the first few days of human fertilisation, when an embryo develops a coating of cells that later form the placenta.
The blood-brain barrier isn't a filter at the base of your skull, rather it's a coating of cells that line hundreds of kilometers of blood vessels reaching every crevice of the cranium.
We could not find evidence that integrin α4β1 is an adhesion receptor in the fibronectin-null cells used in the present experiments, i.e., the cells did not adhere to a coating of vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM) (results not shown).
The goal of these experiments was to test a modified design of the cochlear implant electrode that includes a coating of fibroblast cells transduced by a viral vector with a BDNF gene insert.
As they mature, microvessels acquire a coating of mural cells, which are critical for the development and maintenance of functional vasculature.
Thus such glycerol based copolymers present a promising alternative to PNIPAM as a thermoresponsive coating of cell culture substrates.
As a first step towards this goal, protocols for efficient coating of cell culture dishes with soluble polySia were established.
From the crab's point of view, it is rather useful to be able to blend into one's surroundings and have a coating of animals replete with stinging cells.
The key to the improved hydrophobic (water-shedding) surface is a combination of microscopic patterning — a surface covered with tiny bumps or posts just 10 micrometers (millionths of a meter) across, about the size of a red blood cell — and a coating of a lubricant, such as oil.
