Sentence examples for titan cell from inspiring English sources

The presence of titan cells also inhibited phagocytosis of neighboring normal-sized cells, though titan cell size was not the sole parameter responsible for this property.

In a mouse model of infection, mutants that made fewer titan cells were less virulent, and failed to colonize or disseminate as efficiently as wild type cells.

While mutants that overproduced titan cells fared well in the lung, they did not disseminate to the nervous system as well as the wild type.

When the human fungal pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans lodges in the human lung, up to 20% of the cells enlarge 5 to 10-fold to form titan cells (30 100 µM in diameter).

Not only are titan cells too large to be phagocytosed by alveolar macrophages (10 20 µM in diameter), they also have capsule and cell wall differences that impede complement deposition and opsonization.

In addition to canonical bipolar mating (Kwon-Chung et al. 1992), C. neoformans can form high-DNA content titan cells (Okagaki et al. 2010) and can produce aneuploid progeny through unisexual mating (Ni et al. 2013).

Craig McCaw, the cell phone titan, and Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, have united to fund the OneWorld Challenge with $75 million.

Standbys Bill Gates, cell phone titan Carlos Slim and Warren Buffett.

Two titans, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm, dominate the cell phone market and are protected by a formidable array of patents.

We should be protecting American consumers holding their cell phones, not just telecommunications titans holding stock in the companies.

RT-PCR was carried out on 10 ng of RNA isolated from parental Karpas 299 cells, Dep1, and Dep2 using the Titan One Tube RT-PCR system (Roche Applied Science).