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  • verb Present participle of keratinize.

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  • Working next to one of those machines might change your entire life: you must scan the perimeter, looping, with your especially developed anti-terrorist gaze, which will bring any offender to his knees, thereby creating another sound, the sound of a slowly keratinizing human.

    Rites of Spring Marcus Speh 2011

  • Transplanted cells in nude mice formed subcutaneous tumors, which had histological features of squamous cell carcinoma with apparent keratinizing tendencies.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Satoshi Maruyama 2009

  • FASN expression levels appeared to be highest in non-keratinizing poorly differentiated tumors with basaloid morphology that also expressed very high p63 levels.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Venkata Sabbisetti et al. 2009

  • Of note, FASN expression was more intense in the non-keratinizing poorly differentiated tumors with basaloid morphology, where p63 was found to be positive in almost 100% of tumor cells (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Venkata Sabbisetti et al. 2009

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