Sentence examples for rare fraction from inspiring English sources

As you will appreciate, the CD4+ DC population is quite a rare fraction within the total splenic mononuclear population.

The cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis suggests that neoplastic clones are maintained exclusively by a rare fraction of cells with stemness properties [ 5].

Emerging evidence indicates the existence of a rare fraction of tumor cells endowed with properties characteristic of somatic/embryonic stem cells, cancer stem cells or, as hereafter called, tumor-initiating cells (TICs).

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) or cancer-initiating cells (CICs) accounting for a rare fraction of a certain tumor share many properties with somatic stem cells, such as a capacity for self-renewal and multipotent differentiation potential.

Such tumorigenic properties have been ascribed to a rare fraction of self-renewing, multipotent tumor-initiating cells, GBM stem-like cells (GSCs), responsible for tumor progression, maintenance, and recurrence.

However, others have reported the presence of side populations also from squamous and large-cell carcinoma cell lines, indicating that all NSCLC histological subtypes may contain rare fractions of cells with TIC characteristics.

If the CSC hypothesis proves correct and brain tumours, including ependymoma, arise from rare fractions of stem-like cancer cells, then these findings will lead to a paradigm shift in the way we treat CNS tumours.

By contrast, the rare CD32+CD38− fraction of cells could initiate tumours with high efficiency (Bonnet & Dick, 1997; Lapidot et al, 1994).

The element was discovered in 1843 by Swedish chemist Carl Gustaf Mosander in a heavy rare-earth fraction called yttria, but its existence was not confirmed for at least 30 years, and pure compounds were not prepared until 1905.

Only in very rare cases a fraction of the plasmid mass passed to the bud (2%, N > 50 cells).

Additionally, the pangenomes of the nonclonal species have a high fraction of "rare" pangenes, whereas almost no such "rare" pangenes are found within the pangenomes of the clonal species.