How to Use fibroblast in a Sentence

fibroblast

noun
  • Remove fibroblasts from a petri dish, and skin stem cells struggle to grow.
    — Peter Jurich, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026
  • The process recruits fibroblasts, the cells that lay down scar tissue.
    — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Histogen produces its stem cells from skin cells called fibroblasts.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • The most abundant protein in the body, collagen is made by fibroblasts.
    — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The third requirement was for fibroblasts from opposite sides of a wound to find and touch each other.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
  • When fibroblasts were lost, the ones that remained appeared to compensate.
    — Peter Jurich, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026
  • Skin cells called fibroblasts are uniformly easy to cryopreserve across all species.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
  • Not only does the bio-ink plug the hole, but as the fibroblasts grow and reproduce, the ulcer should actually heal.
    — Ben Coxworth october 16, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The method is also only compatible at the moment with certain cells such as fibroblasts.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Platelets in the blood form clots, white cells are summoned, dead cells are cleared away, and a cascade of chemical signals sounds the alarm to draw in units known as fibroblasts.
    — Mike McRae 28, New Atlas, 28 June 2026
  • That allows the fibroblasts to invade the cartilage and begin destroying it.
    — Carol Eustice, Verywell Health, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The fibroblasts have stopped producing collagen, elastin.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of ink, however, experts attached gold arrays to fibroblasts, cells that sustain body tissue.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Using methods that start with tissue cells called fibroblasts, researchers can engineer stem cells, which are cells capable of becoming any kind of body cell.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Among the many things that occur in this phase, specialized cells called fibroblasts produce collagen that helps create structural suppors for new tissue.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The liver, for example, contains five major cell types, including immune cells, blood vessel cells, and fibroblasts.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The key seems to be that the electric signals speed up the migration of fibroblasts, cells that help build new connective tissue by secreting collagen.
    — New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Using a cell known as a fibroblast, which helps with growth, along with collagen, as a scaffold, researchers printed the epidermis and dermis, the first two layers of skin.
    — Ellen Rosen New York Times, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
  • When researchers wiped out 60 to 70% of fibroblasts in mice—at both adult and newborn stages—the skin’s stem cells kept dividing at completely normal rates.
    — Peter Jurich, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026
  • The cells included heart muscle cells, skin cells, and fibroblasts, cells involved in developing connective tissue in our bodies.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The wound current calls out to the surrounding tissue, attracting helpers like healing agents, macrophages to mop up the mess, and collagen-weaving repair cells called fibroblasts.
    — Sally Adee, Quartz, 30 May 2019
  • Radio-frequency devices use heat on deeper tissue to activate fibroblasts.
    — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 18 July 2024
  • Radio-frequency devices use heat on deeper tissue to activate fibroblasts.
    — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 18 July 2024
  • Today a paper in the journal Cell describes a similar direct transformation in mice, from a type of structural cell called a fibroblast to heart cells.
    — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2010
  • The real virtuosos in regeneration were cells in skin called fibroblasts and periskeletal cells, which normally surround bone.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The process activates fibroblasts, or the skin cells responsible for collagen and elastin production, skin structure, and wound healing.
    — Erica Sweeney, Time, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Topical retinoids ramp up collagen production in fibroblasts.
    — Allure, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Specifically, the fibroblasts of keloids are thought to be more active, survive longer, and produce more collagen and more signaling molecules that promote growth.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • By reprogramming ordinary cells—like skin fibroblasts—into stem cells, scientists hope to create eggs and sperm from individuals long gone.
    — Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • That's because collagen comes from a type of cell called a fibroblast, which is responsible for producing connective tissue and making collagen.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2023

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