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pericytes

pericytes is the plural of pericyte.

Meaning of pericyte

Noun

pericyte (plural pericytes)

  1. A type of mesenchymal cell which in aggregation forms a contractile wrapping around a capillary.
    • Since 1873, when Rouget regarded pericytes as contractile elements (Rouget 1874), the discussion concerning this ability has never ceased. Pericytes are likely to respond to vasoactive molecules such as nitric oxide, prostacyclin, angiotensin II, and endothelin-1, because they express respective...2007, Martin Krũger, Ingo Bechmann, “Pericytes”, in Thomas E. Lane, Monica Carson, Conni Bergmann, Tony Wyss-Coray, editors, Central Nervous System Diseases and Inflammation, page 39

Questions about pericytes

What is pericytes the plural of?
Pericytes is the plural of pericyte.

Words near pericytes in the dictionary

  1. pericystic
  2. pericystitis
  3. pericysts
  4. pericytal
  5. pericyte
  6. pericytes
  7. pericytheria
  8. pericytherion
  9. pericytial
  10. pericytic
  11. pericytoplasmic

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