Examples of multinucleate in the following topics:
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- These muscle fibers are cylindrical, multinucleate in nature.
- Skeletal muscle is striated, multinucleate, and involuntary.
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- Still other protists are composed of enormous, multinucleate, single cells that look like amorphous blobs of slime, or in other cases, similar to ferns.
- Many protist cells are multinucleated; in some species, the nuclei are different sizes and have distinct roles in protist cell function.
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- Plasmodial slime molds are composed of large, multinucleate cells and move along surfaces like an amorphous blob of slime during their feeding stage .
- Haploid spores develop into amoeboid or flagellated forms, which are then fertilized to form a diploid, multinucleate mass called a plasmodium.
- The brightly-colored plasmodium in the inset photo is a single-celled, multinucleate mass.
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- The latter is a multinucleated, continuous cell layer that covers the surface of the placenta.
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- The diploid phase is multinucleate, and after meiosis fragments to produce new organisms.
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- In cardiac muscle, intercalated discs connecting cardiomyocytes to the syncytium, a multinucleated muscle cell, to support the rapid spread of action potentials and the synchronized contraction of the myocardium.
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- Activated CD8+ T cells destroy target cells on contact, whereas activated macrophages produce hydrolytic enzymes and, on presentation with certain intracellular pathogens, transform into multinucleated giant cells.
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- The cell responsible for bone resorption, or breakdown, is the osteoclast, which is found on bone surfaces, is multinucleated, and originates from monocytes and macrophages (two types of white blood cells) rather than from osteogenic cells.
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- In addition, some chlorophytes exist as large, multinucleate, single cells.
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- Plasmodial slime molds are composed of large, multinucleate cells that move along surfaces like an amorphous blob of slime during their feeding stage.