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Disintegration

Disintegration

The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.

(Science: geology) Specifically The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc. Society had need of further disintegration before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally. (Motley) in a decomposed state.The spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation.


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replacing Cells in and outs

... or structural proteins may remain more or less intact (but probably not for long since one of the things that happens pretty quickly is lysosomal disintegration and release of lytic enzymes into the surroundings accelerating the loss of functional proteins) but the logic is missing. It’s hard ...

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by blcr11
Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:59 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: replacing Cells in and outs
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Are blood platelets cells?

... In spite of the fact that they have been observed in the blood vessels during life, there is, at present, a tendency to regard them as products of disintegration of the white cells, or as precipitates, possibly of nucleo-proteid, and not as living elements of the blood. " Directly from Gray's Anatomy. ...

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by b_d_41501
Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:46 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Are blood platelets cells?
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stability ..in what sense?

stability ..in what sense? Are U asking the factors asffecting disintegration of m-RNA ? hrushikesh

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by 2810712
Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:33 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: how long mRNA live?
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