A syncytium (/sɪnˈsɪʃiəm/; pl.: syncytia; from Greek: σύν syn "together" and κύτος kytos "box, i.e. cell") or symplasm is a multinucleate cell that can...
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Cardiac muscle (redirect from Atrial syncytium)
enabling the syncytium to act in a coordinated contraction of the myocardium. There is an atrial syncytium and a ventricular syncytium that are connected...
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contrast to a syncytium, which results from cellular aggregation followed by dissolution of the cell membranes inside the mass. The word syncytium in animal...
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multinucleate cells (syncytium, plural syncytia) of animals and plants are also termed cellularization, often called syncytium cellularization. According...
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embryo and the mother. It is a multinucleate, terminally differentiated syncytium, extending to 13 cm. It is the outer layer of the trophoblasts and actively...
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with a single nucleus) combine to form a multinucleate cell, known as a syncytium. Cell fusion occurs during differentiation of myoblasts, osteoclasts and...
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Trichoplax (section Fibre syncytium)
locomotion, and gland cells that lack cilia. Between these layers is the fibre syncytium, a liquid-filled cavity strutted open by star-like fibres. Trichoplax...
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Heterodera schachtii (section Formation of syncytium)
release chemicals from the stylet to form a pocket of lysed cells called a syncytium. This will be the larva's food source for the rest of its life. The juveniles...
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intercalated disc. The heart is a functional syncytium as opposed to a skeletal muscle syncytium. In a functional syncytium, electrical impulses propagate freely...
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panglial syncytium is a large network of interconnected glial cells, which are extensively linked by gap junctions. The panglial syncytium spreads through...
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Cytopathic effect (section Syncytium)
characteristic of certain retroviruses, paramyxoviruses, and flaviviruses. Syncytium is also known as cell fusion and polykaryon formation. With this CPE,...
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cytoplasm is not divided into separate cells by membranes, but forms a syncytium or continuous mass of cytoplasm with many nuclei (e.g., Reiswig and Mackie...
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misleading to laymen, and as such it is discouraged. Some use the term "syncytium" in a wide sense, to mean any type of multinucleate cell, while others...
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muscle. Within single-unit cells, the whole bundle or sheet contracts as a syncytium (i.e. a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells)...
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muscle, the whole bundle or sheet of smooth muscle cells contracts as a syncytium. Smooth muscle is found in the walls of hollow organs, including the stomach...
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do not release their sperm. For example, the oomycete antheridium is a syncytium with many sperm nuclei and fertilization occurs via fertilization tubes...
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(cardiomyocytes) connected by intercalated discs to work as a single functional syncytium. By contrast, skeletal muscle consists of multinucleated muscle fibers...
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gland' is often found at the tip of the tail. The epidermis is either a syncytium or a single layer of cells, and is covered by a thick collagenous cuticle...
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newly-divided cells apart. In some cases, the resulting structure is a syncytium, created by the fusion of cells after division. Under suitable conditions...
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Heterokaryotic and heterokaryosis are derived terms. This is a special type of syncytium. This can occur naturally, such as in the mycelium of fungi during sexual...
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mechanism of generation of a multicellular organism from a pre-existing syncytium.[citation needed] The colonial theory of Haeckel, 1874, proposes that...
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micronucleus. In humans, skeletal muscle cells, also called myocytes and syncytium, become multinucleated during development; the resulting arrangement of...
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in particular) the partitioning of both chambers is complete. Atrial syncytium Left atrial volume Cournand, A (1947). "Recording of blood pressure from...
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the contractions, following electrical stimulations, of the ventricular syncytium of cardiac muscle cells in the left and right ventricles. Contractions...
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division without cytokinesis, resulting in the macroscopic multinucleate syncytium; in other words, a large single cell with multiple nuclei. While nutrients...
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is responsible for fusion of viral and host cell membranes, as well as syncytium formation between viral particles. Its sequence is highly conserved between...
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(epidermis), among other things. The interior space pervaded by a fiber syncytium in the Placozoa would then correspond to connective tissue in the other...
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exocytosis, gonocyte, hypercytosis, leukocyte, leukocytosis, monocyte, monocytopoiesis, pancytopenia, phagocytosis, polycythaemia, polycythemia, syncytium...
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neurons in the nerve net are highly distinctive by being fused into a syncytium, rather than being connected by synapses. Some animals outside ctenophores...
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tegument covering the epidermis, which consists of a syncytium with no cell walls. The syncytium is traversed by a series of branching tubules containing...
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