apical

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Between three and eight weeks of age, a period that spans early childhood to adolescence, spine density increased sharply in a single region of the apical dendrite.

From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026

BBM encodes a transcription factor that regulates embryonic development, while WUS encodes a transcription factor that maintains stem cell identity in the shoot apical meristem region.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2024

"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

The apical complex is located at the narrow end.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

A lateral apex of the pectoral lamina projects upward behind the axillary scale on each side, in the position occupied by the apical scale of adults.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.