Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or formed of endoplasm.

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  • adjective cytology of, or relating to endoplasm

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Examples

  • One of the most challenged organelles in obese fat cells is a maze-like compartment called the endoplasmic reticulum ER that makes proteins and lipid droplets and senses the amount of nutrients that enter the cell.

    Speedlinking 8/30/07 William Harryman 2007

  • There, long sheets of folded membranes called the endoplasmic reticulum comprise the “action” part of the cell.

    Cell-Level Healing Joyce Whiteley Hawkes 2006

  • The first structure they saw was a lace-like network in the cytoplasm that they termed the endoplasmic reticulum.

    Günter Blobel - Autobiography 2000

  • If the requested protein is for export, manufacture occurs at an organelle known as the endoplasmic reticulum ER.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • If the requested protein is for export, manufacture occurs at an organelle known as the endoplasmic reticulum ER.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • Secreted proteins are made in the cell in association with a membrane system called the endoplasmic reticulum.

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999 - Presentation Speech 1999

  • At present I am investigating, together with my collaborators, the interactions which occur among the membranes of the various compartments of the secertory pathway, namely the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi complex, the secretion granules, and the plasmalemma.

    George E. Palade - Autobiography 1975

  • In particular they studied a network of submicroscopic membranes, called the endoplasmic reticulum, originally discovered by Claude and Porter.

    Physiology or Medicine 1974 - Press Release 1974

  • Foskett and colleagues discovered that a fundamental control system regulating ATP is an ongoing shuttling of calcium to the mitochondria from another cell component called the endoplasmic reticulum.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • This process, called endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation, ensures that defective proteins do not accumulate in the endoplasmic reticulum and kill the cell by disrupting the vital process of protein folding.

    unknown title 2009

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