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  • my teacher asked me to answer the question "In sarcolemma, where from the word sarco is derived?", help?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • Sarcopenia derives from the Latin roots, "sarco," for muscle, and "penia," for wasting, making it a "muscle-wasting disease."

    Brent Green: Follow the Boomer Money: End of Sarcopenia, Compression of Morbidity Brent Green 2011

  • Sarcopenia derives from the Latin roots, "sarco," for muscle, and "penia," for wasting, making it a "muscle-wasting disease."

    Brent Green: Follow the Boomer Money: End of Sarcopenia, Compression of Morbidity Brent Green 2011

  • Sarcopenia derives from the Latin roots, "sarco," for muscle, and "penia," for wasting, making it a "muscle-wasting disease."

    Brent Green: Follow the Boomer Money: End of Sarcopenia, Compression of Morbidity Brent Green 2011

  • A mottled patch of gray had appeared on his left cheek, and-were he to look in a mirror, which he did only when applying a disguise-he knew he'd find his ojo sarco looking deader than usual.

    Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005

  • And what he had seen had been precisely what he had seen when he had looked down through the cavity in the museum floor at the glass sarco - phagus below.

    The Speaker Of Mandarin Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1983

  • Schäfer has worked out the minute anatomy of muscular fiber, particularly in the wing muscles of insects, which are peculiarly adapted for this purpose on account of the large amount of interstitial sarcoplasm which separates the sarco-styles.

    IV. Myology. 2. Development of the Muscles 1918

  • Gramolini AO, Kislinger T, Asahi M, Li W, Emili A, et al. (2004) Sarcolipin retention in the endoplasmic reticulum depends on its C-terminal RSYQY sequence and its interaction with sarco (endo) plasmic Ca2+-ATPases.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Parveen Sharma et al. 2010

  • Sugita Y, Kurzydlowski K, De Leon S, Tada M, et al. (2003) Sarcolipin regulates sarco (endo) plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) by binding to transmembrane helices alone or in association with phospholamban.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Parveen Sharma et al. 2010

  • Phospholamban (PLN) is an effective inhibitor of the sarco (endo) plasmic reticulum Ca

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Parveen Sharma et al. 2010

  • In contrast to the satirical suicide booth in Futurama, the Sarco pod supposedly induces an extremely peaceful death, in which the one committing suicide “will feel a little disoriented and may feel slightly euphoric before they lose consciousness. . . . There is no panic, no choking feeling.”

    Death Pods: Suicide Is Still Never the Answer 2025

  • She would use the Sarco pod, an invention of Philip Nitschke, a strident right-to-die advocate. Nitschke hopes that the 3-D printed pod, with a name that’s short for sarcophagus, will revolutionize the practice of voluntary assisted death by taking doctors out of the picture.

    A “suicide pod” in Switzerland roils the right-to-die debate. Marin Cogan 2024

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