The phrase "small numbers of cells" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: Scientists observed small numbers of cells dividing rapidly in the petri dish, indicating a potential for cancerous growth.
We saw small numbers of cells, but we saw them up to very old age".
Other adult neurogenesis researchers also believe that small numbers of cells could be relevant to the function of the hippocampus.
"We need to identify these small numbers of cells within a cancer, like we have," said Dr. Diane M. Simeone, the senior author of the paper.
However, stochastic effects predominate in the limit of small numbers of cells, which correlates with biologically relevant assays such as the mammosphere formation assay (MFA).
The ability to build cellular structures in three dimensions and deposit small numbers of cells accurately has potential application to tissue engineering.
Increasingly complex biological questions require that this approach be applicable to the small numbers of cells that are obtained from sources such as laser capture microdissection (LCM) of solid tissues.
The design of inserts that can be used in the measure of bioenergetics in small numbers of cells in an organotypic state may be useful for evaluation of new drugs and metabolic mechanisms that underlie airway diseases.
Small numbers of cells were stained following treatment with 25 μg/mL of histone H3, while the blue puncta clearly increased in the cells treated with 50 μg/mL of histone H3. Figure 3 lower panels show the merged phase-contrast and fluorescence images of selected leukocytes (more than 90%% of the leukocytes are neutrophils) at the indicated histone H3 doses.
Here, we consider two mathematical models incorporating cellular plasticity, namely a two-compartment model and a hierarchical model, and by parameterizing these models with experimental data, we show this behavioural difference in the limits of large and small numbers of cells.
Tissue microdissection is a rapidly growing technique with wide applicability in the field of gene expression analysis as improved RNA extraction and reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) techniques provide the sensitivity to amplify transcription products from increasingly small numbers of cells.
RPMA technology has the required sensitivity and precision for small numbers of cells and provides a means of quantifying phosphoproteins indicative of activated signal pathways [19], [20].
