plastin

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noun In biology, an element in the chemical composition of the cell-nucleus: according to Swartz, who calls it also cytoplastin, a viscous extensible mass which resists pepsin- and trypsin-digestion.

noun (Biol.) A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.

noun biology A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.

Ancient Greek to form, mould. See plastic.

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CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009 2009
The essential and indispensable element of the nucleus is called nuclein (or caryoplasm); that of the cell body is called plastin (or cytoplasm).

The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
Representative time points for the expression of runx1 (32 hpf), c-myb (32 hpf), alas2 (32 hpf), gata-1 (28 hpf), pu. 1 (28 hpf), globin bE3 (28 hpf), l-plastin (28 hpf), mpo (28 hpf), and flk1 (28 hpf) genes are shown.

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Representative time points for the expression of runx1 (32 hpf), c-myb (32 hpf), alas2 (32 hpf), gata-1 (28 hpf), pu. 1 (28 hpf), globin bE3 (28 hpf), l-plastin (28 hpf), mpo (28 hpf), and flk1 (28 hpf) genes are shown.

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Representative time points for the expression of runx1 (32 hpf), c-myb (32 hpf), alas2 (32 hpf), gata-1 (28 hpf), pu. 1 (28 hpf), globin bE3 (28 hpf), l-plastin (28 hpf), mpo (28 hpf), and flk1 (28 hpf) genes are shown.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shintaro Imamura et al. 2008
Moreover, the expression of pu. 1, l-plastin and myeloperoxidase (mpo), which is confined to the primitive myeloid cells, is decreased in each case in the ICM of zTERT morphants at 28 hpf (pu. 1; n = 42 of 45; 93\%, l-plastin; n = 39 of 40; 98\%,

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