RANKL promotes the differentiation of OC precursors from an early stage of maturation into fully mature multinucleated OCs and activates mature OCs.
It should be noted that the seeds harvested and utilized in this study were fully matured and dried seeds in the R8 stage of maturation.
It is possible that iron is mobilized to the embryo during the last stage of maturation, changing the proportion of seed coat iron between the R7 stage and maturity.
In mammals, in any single zone along a tubule, all sperm are at the same stage of maturation; adjacent zones contain different generations of sperm, and a period of sperm formation and discharge is followed by an interval of inactivity.
This is because system-based methods are still in a stage of maturation and refinement.
In addition, platonin redirects differentiation of dendritic cells toward an intermediate stage of maturation.
The brain scans showed arrested development in the premature babies at a key stage of maturation.
Moreover, by day 60, there was proliferating connective tissue with fibroblasts at end stage of maturation suggesting host ingrowth into the graft.
Granulomatous lesions are located in the portal and periportal spaces of hepatic sinuses and generally exhibit "an identical stage of maturation" [20, 23].
Three of the seven DEHP-treated animals in seven-week-old group had bulbourethral glands at a stage of maturation far more advanced than that of controls.
This functional dichotomy of DC is governed by various factors, the most important of which appears to be their stage of maturation.
