Sentence examples for protective tissues from inspiring English sources

Natural protective tissues (fat or skin) can prevent microbial contamination, dehydration, or other detrimental changes.

The cell walls of these protective tissues deposit the insoluble lipid biopolyesters cutin and suberin, respectively.

"Soft" keratins are cytoskeletal elements found in epithelial tissues while protective tissues such as nails, hooves, and hair are composed of "hard" keratins.

Another recent study at the University of Oregon found that meditation has a protective effect on the brain, increasing protective tissues and signaling.

Plants with fleshy and tasty fruits were likely favored during evolution by animal driven dispersal [ 35] and the pericarp and skin possibly evolved as protective tissues for developing seed [ 36].

Removing the protective tissue paper, the buyer lifts the gown out of the box just enough to see the bodice of gathered tulle triangles with a decorative sheer tulle strap.

The heartrot fungi gain entrance through any wound resulting from fire scars, broken limbs, or anything else that damages the tree's protective tissue.

As growth proceeds, the cork cambium forms in living cells of the epidermis, cortex, or, in some plants, phloem and produces a secondary protective tissue, the periderm.

A second lateral cambium, called the phellogen or cork cambium, is the source of the periderm, a protective tissue that replaces the epidermis when the secondary growth displaces, and ultimately destroys, the epidermis of the primary plant body.

Like the epidermis, the periderm is a protective tissue on the periphery of the plant body; however, because the periderm is produced by a lateral meristem, it is considered to be of secondary origin (in contrast to the primary origin of the epidermis from the protoderm).

If this protective tissue wears down, bones scrape against one another and can trigger painful inflammation.