sarcomeric

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Relating to the small parts inside muscle fibers that make muscles move

adjective
/sɑrˈkoʊmərɪk/

Specialized

: sarcomérico

Figure 4: Maternal myocardial cells in NLS heart tissue expressing sarcomeric α-actin.
sarcomeric actin

Examples

For confocal microscopy, the substrate Vector Red was used to label sarcomeric α-actin, because it is visible by light and fluorescence microscopy.

Academic text (2003)
Most expressed sarcomeric actin, a specific marker for cardiac myocytes.

Academic text (2003)
A strength of this approach is that it includes an additional internal control, since cells staining for sarcomeric α-actin can readily be shown to not express CD45 and vice versa.

Academic text (2003)
Moreover, most maternal cells in the NLS heart expressed sarcomeric α-actin, a marker that is specific for cardiac myocytes in the heart.

Academic text (2003)
The probe for the X chromosome marker was labeled with green fluorescent FITC-linked dUTP for contrast against the red fluorescence of sarcomeric α-actin.

Academic text (2003)
Cardiac muscle cells have a uniquely organized structure, which is evident in their sarcomeric arrangement.
Research on sarcomeric proteins is crucial for understanding muscle-related diseases.
Microscopic analysis showed that the sarcomeric structure of the muscle fibers was well-preserved.

Surface Forms

sarcomeric positive

Morphology

sarcomeric = sarcomere (transparent) = sarcomere + ic

The adjective is a regular derivation from the noun 'sarcomere' using the productive suffix '-ic', so its meaning ('relating to a sarcomere') follows directly from the base.

Etymology

Sarcomeric comes from the parts sarco- meaning 'flesh' and -mere meaning 'part', so it means 'of the parts of flesh'. The word links to sarcomere, the small repeating part of a muscle fibre that helps muscles work, so sarcomeric means 'relating to those muscle parts'.