In this state, the granuloma represents a stable structure that maintains a fairly constant bacterial load but does not cause any overt signs of disease in the infected individual.
The telomere assumes a 'cap' structure that maintains and protects the ends of eukaryotic linear chromosomes (Zakian, 1996).
It is thus intriguing to speculate that the SEA domain could act as a scaffold structure that maintains TMPRSS6 folding in order for auto-activation to occur.
The fungal cell wall is an essential structure that maintains cell shape and cell integrity, ensures resistance to internal turgor pressure and thereby prevents cell lysis [ 2].
The endothelial barrier is a well-regulated structure that maintains a low and selective permeability to fluid and molecules under normal physiological conditions.
In a manganese-oxide electrode, atoms form a three-dimensional structure that maintains its shape even as lithium ions move in and out of the electrode as the battery is charged and discharged.
This protein called MreB self-assembles into filaments forming a cytoskeleton-like structure that maintains the shape of bacterial cells.
Triacylglycerol crystals of margarine fatty phase are associated with each other by means of primary and secondary bonds [ 39], leading to a three-dimensional structure that maintains the solid state.
The immune system is an awe-inspiring control structure that maintains a delicate and constantly changing balance between pro-immune functions that fight infection and cancer, regulatory or suppressive functions involved in immune tolerance, and homeostatic resting states.
To avoid sorting and scanning, we adopt a segment tree-based structure that maintains the buffered data pages that are continuous in disk.4 In this way, each insertion routine actually amortizes the time for sorting and scanning.
The greatly improved capacity retention, as we expected, is attributed to the hard Fe3C in the heterogeneous structure that maintains the structural integrity and buffers the severe volume change during Li-ion insertion/extraction cycling.
