Sentence examples for membrane protrusions called from inspiring English sources

The abundant polymerization of actin filaments beneath EPEC results in the bacteria rising off the natural surface of the cell on actin-rich membrane protrusions called "pedestals", which are hallmarks of the disease [3], [4].

For example, in bacteria they form 2-dimensional crystalline membrane patches, whereas invertebrate opsins occupy cellular membrane protrusions called microvilli of rhabdomeric photoreceptor cells.

Collagen fibril assembly in embryonic development occurs in recesses of the plasma membrane [ 29,30 ], and newly formed collagen fibrils occur in plasma membrane protrusions called fibripositors [ 26].

Invading cancer cells form filamentous actin (F-actin -based membrane protrusions called invadopodia, whose extracellular matrix (ECM) degrading activity allows them to invade through basement membranes and migrate toward blood vessels [ 1].

These synapses are not formed on the cell bodies of the muscles but instead onto the dendritic spine-like postsynaptic membrane protrusions called muscle arms (White et al., 1986; Leung et al., 1999; Collins and Koelle, 2012).

In humans, bones have protrusions called condyles that help form joints.

In mammalian neurons, excitatory synaptic transmission occurs primarily at specialized, actin-rich protrusions called dendritic spines.

Human auditory transduction occurs in sensory hair cells with a staircase-like arrangement of apical protrusions called stereocilia.

Third, Hh may be transferred by long cellular protrusions called cytonemes (Ramírez-Weber and Kornberg, 1999).

These protrusions, called streamers, form within two minutes of antibody exposure.

In 2011, a new kind of thin extracellular protrusions, called a nanopodium, was reported.