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Having reached this mature configuration, a person continues to pile up grains of experience, building on the existing base.
Immunofluorescence studies localized myosin to the surface of organelles, the vegetative nuclei and generative cells in pollen grains and tubes [ 39], to the active streaming lanes and cortical surface in pollen tubes [ 40] and, more recently, to plasmodesmata in root tissues [ 38, 47].
But sometimes, at midlife, the grains start to stack up as if the entire pile is still pushing upward, still searching for its mature shape.
The hybridization signal was estimated on a scale of 1+ to 4+ as originally described by Meunier [ 29 ] : +, silver grains sparse, but positive hybridization; ++, silver grains are numerous but do not cover the cell type in question; +++, silver grains are very numerous and begin to merge in some places; ++++, silver grains are very dense and form a near uniform mass above the cell type in question; +/-, there was heterogeneity in the hybridization signal, e.g., some of the histological units contained a signal, others did not; -, no detectable hybridization signal.
8a) and the few silver grains were located predominantly over the area of the immature hair cells.