A syncytium (/sɪnˈsɪʃiəm/; pl.: syncytia; from Greek: σύν syn "together" and κύτος kytos "box, i.e. cell") or symplasm is a multinucleate cell that can...

enabling the syncytium to act in a coordinated contraction of the myocardium. There is an atrial syncytium and a ventricular syncytium that are connected...

multinucleate cells (syncytium, plural syncytia) of animals and plants are also termed cellularization, often called syncytium cellularization. According...

contrast to a syncytium, which results from cellular aggregation followed by dissolution of the cell membranes inside the mass. The word syncytium in animal...

locomotion, and gland cells that lack cilia. Between these layers is the fibre syncytium, a liquid-filled cavity strutted open by star-like fibres. Trichoplax...

with a single nucleus) combine to form a multinucleate cell, known as a syncytium. Cell fusion occurs during differentiation of myoblasts, osteoclasts and...

embryo and the mother. It is a multinucleate, terminally differentiated syncytium, extending to 13 cm. It is the outer layer of the trophoblasts and actively...

muscle. Within single-unit cells, the whole bundle or sheet contracts as a syncytium (i.e. a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells)...

intercalated disc. The heart is a functional syncytium as opposed to a skeletal muscle syncytium. In a functional syncytium, electrical impulses propagate freely...

cytoplasm is not divided into separate cells by membranes, but forms a syncytium or continuous mass of cytoplasm with many nuclei (e.g., Reiswig and Mackie...

muscle, the whole bundle or sheet of smooth muscle cells contracts as a syncytium. Smooth muscle is found in the walls of hollow organs, including the stomach...

panglial syncytium is a large network of interconnected glial cells, which are extensively linked by gap junctions. The panglial syncytium spreads through...

(cardiomyocytes) connected by intercalated discs to work as a single functional syncytium. By contrast, skeletal muscle consists of multinucleated muscle fibers...

characteristic of certain retroviruses, paramyxoviruses, and flaviviruses. Syncytium is also known as cell fusion and polykaryon formation. With this CPE,...

misleading to laymen, and as such it is discouraged. Some use the term "syncytium" in a wide sense, to mean any type of multinucleate cell, while others...

mechanism of generation of a multicellular organism from a pre-existing syncytium.[citation needed] The colonial theory of Haeckel, 1874, proposes that...

micronucleus. In humans, skeletal muscle cells, also called myocytes and syncytium, become multinucleated during development; the resulting arrangement of...

gland' is often found at the tip of the tail. The epidermis is either a syncytium or a single layer of cells, and is covered by a thick collagenous cuticle...

Protoplasm – Alternative term for cytoplasm or cytoplasm and nucleoplasm Syncytium – Type of multinucleate cell Shepherd VA (2006). The cytomatrix as a cooperative...

release chemicals from the stylet to form a pocket of lysed cells called a syncytium. This will be the larva's food source for the rest of its life. The juveniles...

the contractions, following electrical stimulations, of the ventricular syncytium of cardiac muscle cells in the left and right ventricles. Contractions...

in an electrical Autonomic postganglionic nerves terminate in systems syncytium and that the excitatory NANC transmission of collateral branches, each...

is responsible for fusion of viral and host cell membranes, as well as syncytium formation between viral particles. Its sequence is highly conserved between...

division without cytokinesis, resulting in the macroscopic multinucleate syncytium; in other words, a large single cell with multiple nuclei. While nutrients...

food particles; it is retained in frills that come from a syncytium. This multinucleated syncytium is the major tissue component of Hexactinellid sponges...

neurons in the nerve net are highly distinctive by being fused into a syncytium, rather than being connected by synapses. Some animals outside ctenophores...

muscle; it omits cytokinesis, thereby yielding multinucleate cells (see syncytium). Plant cytokinesis differs from animal cytokinesis, partly because of...

human body Outline of cell biology Parakaryon myojinensis Plasmolysis Syncytium Tunneling nanotube Vault (organelle) Black, Jacquelyn G. (2004). Microbiology...

Heterokaryotic and heterokaryosis are derived terms. This is a special type of syncytium. This can occur naturally, such as in the mycelium of fungi during sexual...

like a cobweb that contains most of the cell types. This tissue is a syncytium that in some ways behaves like many cells that share a single external...