differentiation
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6.2
- noun
- /ˌdɪfərˌɛnʃiˈeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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diferenciación celular
- In biology class, we learned that differentiation allows stem cells to develop into specialized cells like muscle or nerve cells.
- cell differentiation
- muscle cell differentiation
- T cell differentiation
They cause the differentiation of fat cells or they cause the growth of fat cells.
- They cause the differentiation of fat cells or they cause the growth of fat cells.
- We've been able to get programmed stem cell differentiation to work.
- We get there by a series of of cell divisions and cell differentiations.
- You just change the timing or the balance between pluripotency or an embryonic state and differentiation.
- So today, as always, we weren't able to cover all things related to sex and hormones and sexual differentiation or development.
- So I will not discount the biochemical differentiation and Joe, we will talk about a lot of those those breakthroughs next week.
Examples
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So we have broken this very complex scientific process called differentiation down to these four basic points.
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So in the normal embryo, cells go on down the pathway of commitment towards differentiation, but they generally do not renew themselves.
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So cells move from a state of limited differentiation to a state of more differentiation.
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For this reason, much of the research into cell differentiation and development is done in animals, particularly mice.
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And with that difference in location, for the first time we have differentiation in the human embryo.
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And I can give you names of genes, but what exactly triggers that differentiation is not always clear.
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Here we show that autophagy is essential for normal neutrophil differentiation in vivo.
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Thus, amh is essential for regulating germ cell differentiation in both male and female zebrafish.
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Such mechanisms include IgE production, mast-cell differentiation, and eosinophil growth, migration, and activation.
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Taken together, AMH deficiency causes overproliferation and impaired differentiation of germ cells.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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4.9
Cells or body parts change to do one specific job
Antonyms
- Specialized
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7.0
Making something the same all the way through, for example milk, culture or media
Compounds
- Specialized
A protein on helper T cells that helps the immune system and lets HIV enter cells
- Specialized
A protein on the surface of killer T cells that helps them find infected cells
How Specialized
- Specialized
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4.9
- Specialized
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6.2
- Specialized
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6.1
- Specialized
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2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
differentiation = differentiate (transparent) = different + ion
Regular noun formation from the verb 'differentiate' (verb -> -ion) is a standard morphological process.
Etymology
Differentiation comes from the root different, which means 'not the same'. In biology it describes how simple cells become 'special' kinds of cells, so the word reminds us that cells are becoming different.