The phrase "and extend processes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the expansion or continuation of certain procedures or workflows.
Example: "We need to analyze our current operations and extend processes to improve efficiency and productivity."
Alternatives: "and broaden procedures" or "and lengthen workflows".
PC12 cells grown in the presence of NGF have a polygonal shape and extend processes of different morphologies (Figure 1).
Following CNS trauma, astrocytes proliferate, hypertrophy, and extend processes, walling off the region around the injury epicenter [62].
Neuropil glial cells migrate between protoglomeruli and extend processes to stabilize the protoglomeruli, as the dendrites of AL neurons grow in and begin participating in synapses at stage 7 [68].
Neurons were allowed to attach and extend processes for 9 d in vitro before initiating treatment with 20 n m T3 (Sigma) for 3 h.
The ARH lies adjacent to the median eminence, which contains a blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barrier (see Figure 1) composed of tanycytes, specialized hypothalamic glia that line the floor of the third ventricle and extend processes to contact a specialized capillary plexus [ 4].
Golli proteins are localized within the cytoplasm and process extensions of neural cells, and they are often first evident in these cells when they begin to migrate and extend processes (Pribyl et al., 1996c; Landry et al., 1997, 1998; Jacobs et al., 2009).
Also, if taken too far, the 'align and extend' process could eventually start identifying conserved protein motifs as repetitive elements.
The 'align and extend' process used to construct the canonical dispersed repeat sequences was also used to determine the sequence of the transcribed section of the rRNA repeat unit.
After injecting AAV-Dio2-iCre-2A-GFP into Ai14 reporter mice, tdTomato was expressed in cells lining the ventral 3rd ventricle and extending processes into the parenchyma, the typical morphology of tanycytes (Fig. 4a).
Cells were allowed to grow and differentiate over a relatively short period of time (7 days), after which cultures were fixed and stained to visualize nuclei with Topro-3 as well as cell bodies and extending processes with neurofilament immunostaining.
The neuronal cells strongly expressed Thy-1 glycoprotein in both the cell bodies and extending processes (black arrowheads, panel I), and the same applied for NCAM expression (panel J).
