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secrete

[si-kreet] / sɪˈkrit /




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"They remain metabolically active and have an inflammatory program causing them to secrete inflammatory molecules."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

"These findings suggest that IECs secrete some immunoregulatory factors after butyrate treatment, and these factors can act on T-cells."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Species known as Anthony's poison arrow frog and the Phantasmal poison frog are among those that secrete the toxin onto their skin.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

Her team pays attention to other stress markers, such as that they secrete mucus when biologically stressed.

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

Tufts of feathers sprout from the chicken’s skull, and its feet secrete a sticky liquid.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

We had only one battered paperback copy of “Brown Face, Big Master,” and though the book was secreted away, I found it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Anti-obesity treatments mimic a hormone secreted by the intestines, GLP-1.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Released in 2010, “Tangled” is Disney’s animated take on the fairy tale “Rapunzel,” about a young princess with long blond magical hair who had been unknowingly kidnapped and secreted away in an isolated tower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

Due to their strength, they can be secreted in small volumes in parcels.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

That rocky, misty summit, secreted in the clouds, was far more thrillingly awful and sublime than the crater of a volcano spouting fire.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Males of the shrimplike species, called "entraining grassbed downer" or EGD for short, create distinct patterns of bioluminescence to attract females by secreting packets of protein from a specialized gland.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023

The researchers isolated vSSCs from people undergoing spinal surgery and found that human vSSCs secreting MFGE8 were more likely to interact with cancer cells than vSSCs that were not secreting the protein.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

He adds that this is the first record of land-dwelling invertebrates producing and secreting this particular neurotoxin.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 4, 2023

The bacteria works by secreting a small molecule, known as harmane, which inhibits the early stages of the malaria parasite growing in the mosquito's gut.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2023

They talked about their first mission, taking children, a brother and sister, out of the program and secreting them away through a series of friends and allies.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline


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