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cell (Enemy combatants), noun enemy group, exxremist group, rebel organization, saboteurs, subversives, unnerground extremists
Associated concepts: enemy combatants, justice courts, miliiary tribunals, Patriotic Act, prison cells, sleeper cell, terrorist cell
cell (jail), noun cage, cella, chamber, compartment, confined room, confinement, cubicle, cubiculum, enclosed cage, incarceration, jailhouse, penitentiary, pound, prison, prison house, small cavity, small room, solitary abode
See also: chamber, jail, penitentiary, prison

CELL. A small room in a prison. See Dungeon.



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Research results demonstrated for the first time that hepatic cells possess a mechanism for attempting to repair the wide-ranging hepatic cell necrosis associated with drug-induced acute liver failure, and that anti-CXCL10 antibodies strengthen this type of self-repairing function at the in vivo level.
They demonstrate that fibroblast growth factor-4 and hepatocyte growth factor led to hepatocyte specification of the cultured stem cells in a paper entitled, "Defined Conditions for Development of Functional Hepatic Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells.
Whereas previous studies, performed by other groups, showed that proliferation of transplanted isolated hepatocytes (liver cells) can be achieved only in conjunction with destructive manipulations of host liver, the study completed by Tissera's research team showed extensive proliferation of hepatic cells after pig fetal liver fragments transplantation, without any preparative manipulations of the host liver.
 
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