apical
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To explore these effects, researchers induced apical periodontitis in 30 rats and divided them into three groups.
From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2025
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
They wanted to know if the distal apical dendrites processed visual stimuli differently from their cell bodies when the signals both matched and violated expected patterns.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023
The apical complex is specialized for entry and infection of host cells.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The basal portion of the betel leaf must be rejected, as it produces disease; the apical part, as it induces sin; and the midrib and veins, as they destroy the intellect.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar
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