Smooth muscle tissue

    This shows tissue of smooth muscle at 400x magnification. smooth muscle tissue is made ​​up of individual cells long from 20 mM to 0.5 mm with a central oval nucleus evident. The smooth muscle is under the control of the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system. The smooth muscle tissue generates two types of...

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Cardiac striated muscle tissue

cells that make up the striated muscle tissue are called cardiac myocytes , have branched shape and size of 85-100 uM and 15 uM in length and in width, have striae transverse very well visible (as in striated muscle skeletal) and a central core and very obvious (as in the smooth muscle tissue). A peculiar feature of the cardiac...

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Striated skeletal muscle tissue

striated skeletal muscle tissue formed during the embryonic life, from the fusion of several myoblasts to form a miotubo, the cells that form a syncytium cell elongated cylindrical shape that takes the name of the muscle fiber . The single muscle fiber is characterized by transverse stripes that form the characteristic bands, lighter...

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The Bioreactors

A bioreactor is generally defined as a system capable of providing the cells the intake of nutrients and removal of waste products of cell metabolism. Normally bioreactors are used in industry for the cultivation of bacteria, yeasts, fungi, algae, plant cells and animal cells on a large scale, thanks to the advantage of being able to optimize...

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The applications of cell theraphy

The history of the use of artificial tissues as a substitute for compromised tissue is born in the eighties, when they were put in place the conditions to expand the keratinocytes, the cells of the epidermis that is, to reconstruct in the laboratory flaps of tissue to be transplanted into patients who had suffered burns. From a small skin biopsy...

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Construction of complex tissues

The development of knowledge of cell biology integrated with those of bioengineering has recently opened new perspectives in the field of tissue engineering has established itself, which proposes the use of the cells in the laboratory for the construction of artificial biological tissues to be used as a substitute for damaged ones in result of...

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Cell differentiation

The process by which a relatively non-specialized cell becomes a very specialized is called 'differentiation' and affects both the embryo is an individual adult. During embryonic development, many cell types are generated from the fertilized egg cell, to get the range of cells that characterize the adult subject. The route followed by each embryonic...

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