Sentence examples for circumferential belt from inspiring English sources
Some doctors perform "belt lipectomy" surgery in which they remove a circumferential belt of skin from a patient's waist.
Currents near the continent result in a circumferential belt of surface-water divergence accompanied by upwelling of deeper water masses.
Finally, the puncta mature into cell cell junctions, and actin is remodeled back into the circumferential belt (Adams and Nelson, 1998; Meng and Takeichi, 2009).
As the apicalmost part of the junctional complex (Farquhar and Palade 1963), the TJ forms a continuous, circumferential belt separating apical and basolateral plasma membrane domains, working as a barrier within the intercellular space and as a fence within the plasma membrane.
Tight junctions are continuous, circumferential belt-like structures that form a permeability barrier at the apical end of the intercellular space.
Osteoclasts on non-mineralized substrates do not show actin rings, but rather circumferential belts of podosomes.
Intstead they form circumferential belts of podosomes, dot-like foci of F-actin [19], [20], [21].
In support of this idea, contraction of circumferential actin belt in lining epithelial cells is critical for closure of the neural tube [31], and Syt-null mouse embryos have a marked defect in neural tube closure (Kimura, 2009).
In polarized cells in vivo, such as like intestinal epithelial cells, SYT colocalized with circumferential actin belt prominently running along apical-lateral edges (Figure 4D,E), and based on RNAi-cell culture studies, SYT may have an important role in the organization and function of these cytoskeletal elements.
In addition, a circumferential actin belt that encircles each endothelial/epithelial cell at the level of TJs is important for formation and normal function of TJs.
These cells fail to organize the apical circumferential actinomyosin belt and exhibited discontinuities in β-catenin staining (Nakajima and Tanoue 2011), comparable with our observations of foscrb Y10A crb GX24 embryos stained with the junctional marker Canoe (see Figure 8E′).
