secretion
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Instead, they travel along environmental and host surfaces using a specialized machine known as the type 9 secretion system, or T9SS.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
The study appears in Science Advances under the title "A long-term ketogenic diet causes hyperlipidemia, liver dysfunction, and glucose intolerance from impaired insulin secretion in mice."
From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026
Novo’s cautious C-suite was ready to target Type 2 diabetes—an obvious choice, as GLP-1 augments insulin secretion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
The EU has already defined dairy items as products coming from the "normal mammary secretion".
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
Nearly every cellular function—metabolism, respiration, cell division, self-defense, waste disposal, secretion, signaling, growth, even cellular death—requires proteins.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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