differentiation
differentiation
Definition
dif·fer·en·tia·tion (-en′s̸hē ā′s̸hən)
noun
- a differentiating or being differentiated
- Biol. the modification of an organ, tissue, etc. in structure or function during development into a more specialized state
- Math. the working out of the differential or derivative
differentiation
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- induce: Briefly, target molecules will be used on bone marrow stem cells in tissue culture to induce specific appropriate differentiation.
- regulate: Wnt signaling regulates myogenic differentiation in the developing avian limb.
- undergo: Transit cells have the ability to divide rapidly a limited number of times, after which they undergo terminal differentiation.
- allow: A choice of five colors allows differentiation between diverse hazards.
Adjective modifier
- epithelial: Levels are low in the induced metanephric mesenchyme, increase as the cells undergo epithelial differentiation, and attenuate as they mature ( Ref.
- epidermal: Vitamin D3 analogs, such as calcipotriol and tacalcitol, reduce proliferation of keratinocytes and promote epidermal differentiation.
- cellular: How differential gene expression leads to organ formation and cellular differentiation.
- partial: Second level modules include partial differentiation, matrices and probability.
- implicit: Implicit differentiation; chain rule; differentiation of functions defined by integrals.
- pedagogical: Finally, the fourth ax of educational quality and inclusive education development is related with pedagogical differentiation, the main content of this paper.
Modifies a noun
- antigen: Proceedings of the fifth workshop and conference on white cell differentiation antigens, Boston, 1993 in leucocyte Typing V, Ed.
- pathway: Presumably, the other tumor cells are committed to differentiation pathways and senescence.
Noun used with modifier
- vitro: The in vitro differentiation of a bi potential glial progenitor cell.
- tumor: In contrast, Taxol resistance is not related to tumor differentiation.
- cell: Vitamin A is known to play a part in cell differentiation, a process by which cells " mature.
- gender: The main problems with the gender differentiation do not rely solely in Martial Arts.
- terminal: AB - The process of terminal differentiation is associated with exit from the cell cycle and loss of the proliferative potential of cells.
- tissue: Tissue Differentiation In the body there are many different cells with many different functions.
Preposition: in
- vitro: Projects aims include determining markers of early embryonic viability and differentiation in vitro.
Preposition: of
- cell: During acute virus infection, replication of the virus genome is linked strictly to the state of differentiation of the infected cell.
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