How to Use cell body in a Sentence

cell body

noun
  • When lung cells fused, only the main parts of the cell body connected to each other.
    — Byclaudia Lopez Lloreda, science.org, 7 June 2023
  • So the microbe must somehow get the electrons out of its cell body and attach them to rust particles.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2019
  • Venter has already transferred the genome of one species into the cell body of another.
    — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2010
  • Gray matter, on the other hand, is the pinkish-gray tissue rich in neuronal cell bodies.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 July 2019
  • At the front are the dendrites, spidery and often dense projections that all converge and meet at the cell body.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Those signals would then get combined in the cell body, which would determine how the neuron as a whole would respond.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The dendrites transmit signals to the neuron’s cell body, where the signals are integrated.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Indeed, every 3-cm increase in axon length is calculated to add more than double the volume of the neuronal cell body to the axon each day.
    — Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This 2009 image reveals the main cell body, or soma, or a spiny neuron, with its dendrites radiating away.
    — Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2010
  • These branches receive molecular signals at one end of a neuron and induce the cell to rapidly fire an electrical charge that ripples down the cell body, known as an action potential.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
  • By definition, such cells are proficient at concentrating gene products into vesicles and then removing them from the cell body through secretion.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
  • For example, some inhibitory cells prefer to send signals to another neuron’s little branches called dendrites, while others send signals to a neuron’s cell body.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Among neurons, in contrast, the fusion happened farther away from the cell body, at long, thin extensions known as dendrites and axons, which are critical for cell-cell communication.
    — Byclaudia Lopez Lloreda, science.org, 7 June 2023
  • The cell body contains structures and organelles (’mini-organs’ inside the neuron) that keep it alive and carry out various cellular and genetic processes.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Vaibhav Deshmukh Motor neurons grown in microfluidic device for separation of cell bodies (top) and axons (bottom).
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The reconstructed map, described today in Nature, showed that while one type of bipolar cell connects to the amacrine cells' filaments close to the cell body, another does do so farther away along the length of the filaments.
    — Mo Costandi, Scientific American, 5 May 2014
  • The researchers looked specifically at where gray matter (the body of a neuron) intersects with white matter (the long axons that project out of the cell body) — an area thought to be particularly vulnerable to head impacts.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This structure gave cells ready access to the gel’s nutrients while mimicking alternating between gray and white matter in the cortex, where gray matter contains neuron cell bodies and white matter contains the long axons connecting them.
    — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • When neurons fire, action potentials – brief, high-voltage spikes traveling outward from their cell bodies – set up local electrical activity in other neurons, causing current to flow within and outside them.
    — Giridhar Kalamangalam, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • To visualize the elements that make up neurons—axons, dendrites, and cell bodies—Seung and Berger used a computer to draw 3-D surfaces around the neural structures found in the cube.
    — Danielle Egan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Cajal also developed the Theory of Dynamic Polarization, which poses that information flows in one direction — into a neuron’s dendrites, through its cell body, and out its axon.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018

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