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fibroblast

n. a cell found in connective tissue that produces fibers, such as collagen

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fibroblast

n. a cell from which connective tissue develops

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Fibroblast

A fibroblast is a type of cell that synthesizes the extracellular matrix and collagen, the structural framework ( stroma) for animal tissues, and plays a critical role in wound healing. Fibroblasts are the most common cells of connective tissue in animals.

Usage examples of "fibroblast".

Sometimes the fibroblast was forced to divide to do its work, to produce new collagen.

She saw that each time, inside the fibroblast, as the chromosome lined up to split so that it could form two new cells, a little piece at the end of the chromosome got just a little bit shorter.

Lubin gave thanks for cells forcibly overcrowded with mitochondria, for trimeric antibodies, for macrophage and lymphokine and fibroblast production cranked up to twice the mammalian norm.

Her job initially was to work with the fibroblast culture sent by Peter.

It will serve as a source of fibroblasts that we will grow in tissue culture.

Having developed the procedure, Daniel was intimately aware of its subtleties and pitfalls, but under his sure hand, the enzymes and viral vectors worked perfectly, and he soon had a number of the fibroblasts ready.

HTSR-altered fibroblasts had been a replacement for one of the original ten eggs that Paul Saunders had supplied.

The human body attacks embedded foreign objects through sophisticated immune reactions: inflammatory responses, antigens, macrophages, lymphocytes, fibroblasts.

The fibroblasts in the cultures divided roughly into two groups—healthy and sickly.

Then you ultrasonically inject a weekly dose of fibroblast growth factor, plus a few cells from the knuckle and the nail, at the appropriate times .