How to Use intracellular in a Sentence

intracellular

adjective
  • The gain is primarily due to an increase in intracellular water content, rather than an increase in fat mass.
    — Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 17 July 2025
  • All the genes identified so far have to do with intracellular trafficking, or the transport of molecules within cells.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
  • These substances prevent ice from forming within the cells, reducing the risk of lethal intracellular damage.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • That way, products can be shuttled directly to the next reaction, with no time to spiral off into the chaotic intracellular milieu.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2015
  • That suggested to her that something in the intracellular environment set the tempo of degradation.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Bananas Bananas are a great source of potassium, the most abundant intracellular mineral.
    — Amy Brownstein, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 10 July 2024
  • The intracellular domain describes receptors lying within the T cell.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Used in cases of moderate or severe Alzheimer's disease, this medication affects how fast intracellular calcium builds up.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The reduced cognitive function seen in Alzheimer’s is more closely correlated with the number and location of intracellular tau-tangles.
    — Andrew Williams, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Poinar has worked on amber fossils for decades, first discovering that amber could preserve intracellular structures in an organism trapped inside in a 1982 study.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Poinar has worked on amber fossils for decades, first discovering in a 1982 study that amber could preserve intracellular structures in an organism trapped inside.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
  • It is proposed that percussion decomposition of peroxynitrate compounds occurs in the intracellular fluids of the sensory organ and brain cells.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2014
  • The neuron in the center (yellow) contains an abnormal intracellular accumulation of huntingtin called an inclusion body (orange).
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • But Girault noted that the enzyme that catalyzes the attachment of dopamine to H3 is also regulated by levels of intracellular calcium.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • When its external part contacts a particular feature on the surface of a cell, its intracellular part sends a signal through a cascade of molecules that eventually results in collection genes getting expressed.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2017
  • For example, one estimate suggests that intracellular microbial endosymbionts help about 10–15 percent of all insects meet their dietary needs.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • Manipulating these intracellular signals, combined with the addition of a widening field of neuron growth factors, offers hope to ramp up the extent, speed and accuracy of regeneration.
    — Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
  • These all converged on one target, CRMP2, an intracellular protein that regulates neural networks.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • Together these early proteins create the intracellular conditions for replication and transcription.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Both of their research programs focused on cellular logistics, leading to new principles of intracellular transport and cellular organization.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • One of the major hurdles that tau-targeting treatments must overcome is targeting intracellular tau – the tau that remains inside cells and is responsible for seeding – which is something that existing immunotherapies don’t do overall.
    — New Atlas, 23 July 2024
  • Specifically, opioids activate an intracellular signaling protein called beta-arrestin, while the mitragynines do not.
    — Mason Marks, STAT, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Why Potassium Is Important for Health Potassium is the most abundant intracellular cation, existing in all tissues.
    — Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Researchers and clinicians can use it to measure oxygen saturation in vivo and identify intracellular proteins associated with specific diseases.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In previous studies, basic physiological assessments were used to determine how warmer storage worked; Cypel and his team, led by Aadil Ali, could study lung function at an intracellular level.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Previous work suggested phase separation of the intracellular protein HP1 helped stretches of heterochromatin bunch up.
    — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Plants have evolved their own multipronged immune system, kick-started by cell receptors that recognize general pathogen features, such as a bacterial cell wall, as well as intracellular receptors for molecules secreted by specific pathogens.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Others may improve brain health by supporting cerebral functions like molecular processes, neurotransmission, and intracellular signaling.
    — Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Mice treated with the antibodies developed fewer tumors and lived at least 20 percent longer than untreated ones, holding the promise that similar techniques might eventually target a suite of intracellular cancer proteins.
    — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2012
  • Are hypotheses involving intracellular enzyme pathways and the effects of microRNA on protein regulation so much less constrained than, say, solid-state physics and materials science?
    — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2014

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