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fibril

[fahy-bruhl, fib-ruhl] / ˈfaɪ brəl, ˈfɪb rəl /




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Their image of these fibril assemblies made the cover of the ACS Nano and was put together by first author Weiyan Zhou, who color-coded the image based on where the Nile reds were pointing.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024

These cross-β fibril assemblies are also useful building blocks within designer biomaterials for medical applications, but their resemblance to their amyloid beta cousins, whose tangles are a symptom of neurodegenerative disease, is concerning.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024

These findings highlight that fibril reorientation, straightening, stretching, and sliding are crucial mechanisms facilitating whole-disc compression.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024

Each protein molecule contributes two windings of a helix to the length of the fibril so that the β-strands alternate between intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen bonding along the axis of the fibre.

From Nature ● Nov. 8, 2016

As the second incision was made, I felt a strange flash of pain play through the limb, as if it were in every minutest fibril of nerve.

From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell




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