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STONE CELL [2 records]

Record 1 1999-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
  • Silviculture
DEF

A roughly isodiametric cell with a massive lignified secondary wall that is often conspicuously laminated and may contain ramiform pits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
  • Sylviculture
CONT

Les [...] cellules pierreuses [...] sont des sclérites courts, à forme arrondie, sans ramification de la paroi, isodiamétriques, groupés ou isolés. [...] [Elles] constituent les parties dures des graines et de certains fruits charnus.

Key term(s)
  • brachysclérite

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
  • Biochemistry
  • Cytology
CONT

One cellular protein, c-Rel, a member of the NF-KB/Rel family, actually hinders HIV transcription. But it is made more slowly than are the factors that stimulate transcription. Clearly, the virus succeeds in getting itself transcribed often enough to spread infection. At first, the provirus relies on NF-KB and other proteins present in the activated cell to initiate its transcription into RNA. This process, though slow to begin with, can be likened to the tumbling of a stone that sets more and more stones rolling until it creates an avalanche.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
  • Biochimie
  • Cytologie
CONT

Une protéine cellulaire de la même famille que NF-KB/Rel, la protéine c-Rel, empêche la transcription de l'ADN viral. Malheureusement elle est produite plus lentement que les facteurs qui stimulent cette transcription, de sorte que l'infection continue à se propager. Le démarrage de la transcription virale dépend des protéines NF-KB/Rel et des autres protéines présentes dans la cellule infectée et activée. Cette transcription, lente au début, s'accélère comme une pierre qui roule, entraînant avec elle de plus en plus de pierres jusqu'à déclencher une avalanche.

Spanish

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