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an independent team of operatives who work together in a CELLULAR MANUFACTURING production environment.

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20The decrease in VEGF level in the peripheral blood of PIH patients suggests that VEGF affects the differentiation and proliferation of nurse cells causes invasive functional disorder of nurse cells and affects the physiological changes of spiral arterioles.

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor expression in peripheral blood of patients with pregnancy induced hypertension syndrome and its clinical significance

The nurse cells produce substances that are passed into the maturating oocyte.

Nuclear activity in Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera, Apidae) queen ovary cells demonstrated by silver nitrate impregnation and ultrastructure/Atividade nuclear em celulas do ovario de rainha de Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera, Apidae) demonstrada por impregnacao com nitrato de prata e ultraestrutura

In a later stage, the nurse cells cease their engulfing activity, become spherical, and enucleate themselves before transferring their content to the oocyte (Fig.

Endosymbiotic yeast maternally transmitted in a marine sponge

In the egg chambers of fruit flies, that RNA also moves from nourishing cells called nurse cells to the maturing egg, traveling through cytoplasmic pathways called ring canals, says Columbia's Tulle Hazelrigg.