• Tuft cells are chemosensory cells in the epithelial lining of the intestines. Similar tufted cells are found in the respiratory epithelium where they are...
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  • Tufted cells are found within the olfactory glomeruli. They receive input from the receptor cells of the olfactory epithelium found in areas of the nose...
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    Enterochromaffin cell Goblet cell Paneth cell Tuft cell Enterocyte Microfold cell Hepatocyte Hepatic stellate cell Cholecystocyte Centroacinar cell Pancreatic...
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    the tuft cells of the gastrointestinal tract, or intestinal tuft cells, although there is a difference between the two types: the brush cells lack the...
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  • tuft in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tuft or tufts or tufted can refer to: Tufted grass, grasses growing in tussocks Fascicle (botany), or tuft,...
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    types are the secretory cells – goblet cells, Paneth cells, enteroendocrine cells, and Tuft cells. Paneth cells are absent in the colon. As part of its...
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    dendrites and soma or from periglomerular cells onto their dendritic tuft. Mitral cells together with tufted cells form an obligatory relay for all olfactory...
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    and tufted cells, as well as, from cells that surround the glomerulus such as the external tufted cells, periglomerular cells, short axon cells, and...
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    cells, myofibroblast, tuft cells, and at the base of the gland, Paneth cells (secreting anti-microbial peptides) and stem cells. Intestinal glands are...
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    mitral and tufted cells, which help determine odor concentration based on the time certain neuron clusters fire (called 'timing code'). These cells also note...
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  • cells mediate lateral inhibition in the olfactory system together with granule cells. They have inhibitory synapses on mitral cells and tufted cells....
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  • the formation of the glomerular tuft. Mesangial cells aid filtration by constituting part of the glomerular capillary tuft structure that filters fluids...
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    Paneth cells are cells in the small intestine epithelium, alongside goblet cells, enterocytes, and enteroendocrine cells. Some can also be found in the...
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  • EPSPs are amplified by persistent sodium ion conductance in external tufted cells. Low-voltage activated calcium ion conductance enhances even larger EPSPs...
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    Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well...
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    vessels), composed of intraglomerular mesangial cells. The blood is filtered across the capillary walls of this tuft through the glomerular filtration barrier...
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    "Unsupervised Trajectory Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Seq and Imaging Data Reveals Alternative Tuft Cell Origins in the Gut". Cell Systems. 6 (1): 37–51.e9. doi:10...
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    Each olfactory receptor cell expresses only one type of olfactory receptor (OR), but many separate olfactory receptor cells express ORs which bind the...
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    stalk) is a bilateral bundle of afferent nerve fibers from the mitral and tufted cells of the olfactory bulb that connects to several target regions in the...
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  • and tufts cells send signals to the olfactory cortex. Signals from odor sensation are sent from the olfactory bulb through mitral and tufts cell axons...
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    They derive their name from the tufts of stereocilia called hair bundles that protrude from the apical surface of the cell into the fluid-filled cochlear...
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    Neuron (redirect from Nerve cell)
    Renshaw cells, neurons with both ends linked to alpha motor neurons Unipolar brush cells, interneurons with unique dendrite ending in a brush-like tuft Granule...
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  • processing taking place in the brain. As with the visual system, in mitral/tufted cells in the olfactory bulb of mice, first-spike latency relative to the start...
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    dendrites of the mitral and tufted cells. The granule cell in turn releases GABA to cause an inhibitory effect on the mitral cell. More neurotransmitter is...
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    Michael Levin (biologist) (category Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni)
    Tufts University, and a Ph. D. in genetics from Harvard University (working in the lab of Clifford Tabin). His post-doctoral training was in the Cell...
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  • from the olfactory tract. It receives input from mitral cells and tufted cells. These cells do not pass through the thalamus. The primary olfactory cortex...
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  • Wigton, Eric J.; Parent, Audrey V.; Kyewski, Bruno (July 2018). "Thymic tuft cells promote an IL-4-enriched medulla and shape thymocyte development". Nature...
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    mitral cells, and with each of these mitral cells projecting to multiple glomeruli. Mitral cells also project to periglomerular cells and granular cells that...
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    nephron of the kidney. It consists of a glomerulus - a tuft of capillaries composed of endothelial cells - and a glomerular capsule known as Bowman's capsule...
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    Philippe; Maizels, Rick M.; Devaney, Eileen; Britton, Collette (2021). "Tuft Cells Increase Following Ovine Intestinal Parasite Infections and Define Evolutionarily...
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