However, its taxonomic affiliation is based solely on morphological traits of cell shape and sheath formation, along with Fe-oxidation.
mRNA-binding proteins regulating various essential traits of cell biology underlying tumor aggressiveness is well established.
The unique structural traits of cell surface PGs enable them to modulate directly and/or indirectly several facets of the tumour cell phenotype and behavior, including growth kinetics, invasiveness and metastatic ability.
Measurements of 10 traits were initially used to characterize SAM architecture: height, arc length, width, and midpoint width from the P1 cleft; cell number in the L1 layer along the arc length; length of P1; PIL; and the derived traits of cell size, height.width ratio, and volume.
The ability to engulf acetylated LDL is a characteristic trait of cells of the endothelial phenotype, and this property is commonly used to isolate and identify endothelial cells from other cell types and monitor cellular metabolism [ 29].
Of note is the observation that this seems to be a constitutive trait of cells with stem-cell properties in human adult epithelium and not acquired during progression to malignancy.
However, as the molecular traits of ganglion cells and bipolar cells are never observed in the tumors, it is important to understand the common traits, the molecular pathways and cellular characteristics, of the cells found in retinoblastomas.
The transcription factors encoded by these genes can impart the traits of mesenchymal cells to tumor cells, including motility and invasiveness.
Cytoplasmic E-cadherinhigh/membrane E-cadherinlow cells carry traits of other cell lineages and therefore, most likely, represent primitive progenitor cells or stem cells.
