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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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S100B released by astroglial cells promotes harmful astroglial activation (astrogliosis) and adversely affects neurons, causing them to die at increased rates or develop in multiple dysfunctional ways.

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Zhang and Marsicano have now shown that mice lacking CB1Rs only on astroglial cells of the brain are protected from the impairments to spatial working memory that usually follow a dose of THC.

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Zhang and Marsicano now show that mice lacking CB1Rs only on astroglial cells of the brain are protected from the impairments to spatial working memory that usually follow a dose of THC.

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17,20,21] Interestingly, nonneoplastic (reactive) astroglial cells in medulloblastomas are GFAP positive and [Beta]III negative.

Aberrant Localization of the Neuronal Class III [Beta]-Tubulin in Astrocytomas

If you want to bring overexpression of the deimination to the neurons," said Bhattacharya, "and it goes into the astroglial cells, instead of doing a good thing you will be doing a bad thing.

Bascom Palmer Researchers Make Discoveries That Could Someday Restore Vision in Demyelinating Disease

Kirov says that a stroke takes away the pump's fuel, known as ATP, leaving neurons and supportive astroglial cells bloated and dysfunctional.

Scientists studying slices of living human brain tissue to identify new stroke therapies

When administered alone however, CHQ induced, rather that inhibited, the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines in astroglial cells through activation of the transcription factor NF-[kappa]B (114).

Chloroquine: novel uses & manifestations

Identification of the pituicytes as astroglial cells by indirect immunofluorescence-staining for the glial fibrillary acidic protein.