fibril


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Synonyms for fibril

a very fine continuous strand

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The company said the primary objective of the trial is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of PTR-01 in RDEB patients, assess biologic activity through skin biopsy evaluation of C7 and the presence of anchoring fibrils to potentially provide proof of concept as well as evaluate the wound healing and patient reported outcomes.
According our previous studies [31], the equatorial streak of small-angle diffuse scattering for PSA fibers is generally attributed to the presence of fibrils elongated along the fiber axis.
SANS also has been found capable of measuring the spacing between elementary fibrils in wood cell walls as a function of moisture content (Fernandes et al.
As the main composition of beef tendons, collagen fibrils are the most abundant proteins in mammalian tissues, accounting for more than 30% of the total protein [1].
Besides, the LLDPE fibrils observed in the cross section are all treated as complete cylinders.
It is shown that ThT can be used as a marker for amyloid fibril formation not only in dilute aqueous solutions but also in modeled macromolecular crowding conditions in vitro, which simulate fibrillogenesis conditions in vivo, because the photophysical characteristics of the dye in the presence of crowding agents vary considerably less in comparison with changes induced for ThT bound to amyloid fibrils.
A computational model based on the degradation of the collagen fibril network in the articular cartilage was able to predict the onset and progression of osteoarthritis in overweight people during a four-year follow-up.
Identification of collagen fibril fusion during vertebrate tendon morphogenesis.
Phenomenologically, the aggregation kinetics of hIAPP are sigmoidal with a short lag time followed by explosive fibril growth.
We hypothesize that cadmium binds collagen directly and interferes with collagen fibril assembly in the ECM produced by osteoblasts.
Broken ends developed where fibres were pulled apart leaving frayed fibril bundles as shown in Figure 8a and Figure 8e.
coli cells grown on normal medium showed the cell wall composed of outer and cytoplasm membranes enclosing a periplasmic space, the nucleoid containing fine DNA fibril and the cytoplasm containing numerous ribosomes.