Stroma (from Ancient Greek στρῶμα  'layer, bed, bed covering') is the part of a tissue or organ with a structural or connective role. It is made up of...

Look up stroma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stroma may refer to: Stroma (tissue), the connective, functionally supportive framework of a biological...

The stroma of the iris is a fibrovascular layer of tissue located at the front of the iris. The stroma is a delicate interlacement of fibres. Some circle...

reticular cells together forming the stroma of hemopoietic tissue (specifically the red bone marrow) and lymphatic tissue organs (lymph nodes and spleen but...

The stroma of the ovary is a unique type of connective tissue abundantly supplied with blood vessels, consisting for the most part of spindle-shaped stroma...

flava.: 173  In hematopoietic and lymphatic tissues, reticular fibers made by reticular cells provide the stroma—or structural support—for the parenchyma...

form a soft skeleton (stroma) to support the lymphoid organs (lymph node stromal cells, red bone marrow, and spleen). Adipose tissue is held together by...

isolated from the primary culture of bone marrow stroma, can give rise to bone, adipose, and cartilage tissue. The composition of marrow is dynamic, as the...

body system. An organ's tissues can be broadly categorized as parenchyma, the functional tissue, and stroma, the structural tissue with supportive, connective...

is in contrast to the stroma, which refers to the structural tissue of organs or of structures, namely, the connective tissues.[citation needed] The brain...

regulated by estrogen and progesterone. It consists of glandular and stroma tissue from the lining of the uterus. When the endometrial mucous membrane...

framework (stroma) for animal tissues, and plays a critical role in wound healing. Fibroblasts are the most common cells of connective tissue in animals...

the stroma, there is an increase in the amount of fibrous and fatty tissue, with the adult nonlactating breast consisting of 80% or more of stroma. Rosenfield...

calcium salts in a body tissue. It normally occurs in the formation of bone, but calcium can be deposited abnormally in soft tissue, causing it to harden...

connective tissue cells), which occupy about 10% of the substantia propria. Apart from the cells, the major non-aqueous constituents of the stroma are collagen...

uncoordinated, and autonomous cellular or tissue growth. Desmoplasia refers to growth of dense connective tissue or stroma. This growth is characterized by low...

inhibit stroma tissue synthesis. Alternatively, contact lens-induced hypoxia may trigger a lactic acid buildup that leads to the erosion of stromal tissue. The...

openings located on either side of the collarette that allow the stroma and deeper iris tissues to be bathed in aqueous humor. Collagen trabeculae that surround...

following host tissue: bone marrow, connective tissue, adipose tissue, and blood vessels. Moreover, evidence suggests that tumor-associated stroma are a prerequisite...

as placenta, umbilical cord blood, adipose tissue, adult muscle, corneal stroma, or the dental pulp of deciduous (baby) teeth. The cells do not have the...

composed of stroma. There are 2 theories of how transparency in the cornea comes about: The lattice arrangements of the collagen fibrils in the stroma. The light...

in the stroma. The hydrogen ions in the thylakoid space then diffuse back down their concentration gradient, flowing back out into the stroma through...

stroma haphazardly distributed throughout myometrium Concentric myometrial hyperplasia frequent around adenomyotic foci Variants: Gland-poor, stroma-poor...

malignant subtype of endometrial stromal tumor arising from the stroma (connective tissue) of the endometrium rather than the glands. There are three grades...

the thymus begins to atrophy and regress, with adipose tissue mostly replacing the thymic stroma. However, residual T cell lymphopoiesis continues throughout...

anterior to the corneal limbus. The donor tissue is tamponaded against the person's exposed posterior corneal stroma by injecting a small air bubble into the...

frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris.: 9  In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light...

which are not tumor cells, but stromal fibroblasts. In this scenario, the stroma become corrupted by cancer cells and turn into factories for the synthesis...

others, constitute mammary stroma. Mammary epithelial ECM mainly contains myoepithelial basement membrane and the connective tissue. They not only help to...

superficial one third part of stroma. In this technique, the opaque part of the cornea is removed and replaced with donor tissue, leaving healthy part of the...