apical
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The number of apical progenitor cells, which are essential for building the cerebral cortex, was significantly lower.
From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025
This orientation ensures that cellular components are evenly shared and that two new apical progenitor cells are produced.
From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025
To explore these effects, researchers induced apical periodontitis in 30 rats and divided them into three groups.
From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2025
"Surprisingly, the distal apical dendrites responses grew significantly over time becoming increasingly sensitive to inputs that violate the patterns, while the cell bodies lost their initially strong sensitivity," says Zylberberg, a computational neuroscientist.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023
It is closed except at the apex, and contains the female spikelet, the stalks of the male inflorescence and the long styles emerging through the small apical orifice.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various