extracellular material

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• extracellular matrix — (ECM) any material produced by cells and excreted to the extracellular space within the tissues. It takes the form of both ground substance and fibers and is composed chiefly of fibrous elements, proteins involved in cell adhesion, and… …   Medical dictionary

• extracellular matrix — (= ecm; ECM) Any material produced by cells and secreted into the surrounding medium, but usually applied to the non cellular portion of animal tissues. The ecm of connective tissue is particularly extensive and the properties of the ecm… …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• cell wall — Extracellular material serving a structural role. In plants the primary wall is pectin rich, the secondary wall mostly composed of cellulose. In bacteria, cell wall structure is complex: the walls of Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria are… …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• Cell membrane — Illustration of a Eukaryotic cell membrane The cell membrane or plasma membrane is a biological mem …   Wikipedia

• bacteria — bacterial, adj. bacterially, adv. /bak tear ee euh/, n.pl., sing. bacterium / tear ee euhm/. ubiquitous one celled organisms, spherical, spiral, or rod shaped and appearing singly or in chains, comprising the Schizomycota, a phylum of the kingdom …   Universalium

• Odontogriphus — Temporal range: Burgess Shale …   Wikipedia

• Trichoplax adhaerens — Taxobox name = Trichoplax adhaerens image caption = Light microscope image of Trichoplax (specimen ca. 0.5 mm across) regnum = Animalia subregnum = Metazoa superphylum = Parazoa phylum = Placozoa genus = Trichoplax species = adhaerens binomial =… …   Wikipedia

• ECM — electronic claims management; embryonic chick muscle; erythema chronicum migrans; experimental cerebral malaria; expression of extracellular matrix; external cardiac massage; extracellular material; extracellular matrix * * * extracellular matrix …   Medical dictionary

• ECM — • electronic claims management; • embryonic chick muscle; • erythema chronicum migrans; • experimental cerebral malaria; • expression of extracellular matrix; • external cardiac massage; • extracellular material; • extracellular matrix …   Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations

• Synaptogenesis — is the formation of synapses. Although it occurs throughout a healthy person s lifespan, an explosion of synapse formation occurs during early brain development. Synaptogenesis is particularly important during an individual s critical period of… …   Wikipedia

• slime — The viscous extracellular glycoproteins or glycolipids produced by staphylococci and Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria that allows them to adhere to smooth surfaces such as prosthetic medical devices and catheters. More generally, the term often… …   Dictionary of microbiology