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Hello !" McCain is grinning, but the grin is becoming ghoulish, and his voice is rising to a tightly wound pitch.
We speculate that the genomic and antigenomic RNA of NNR viruses escape the onslaught of dsRNA because they are tightly wrapped with the nucleocapsid protein N, which makes them inaccessible to the dsRNA and/or the RNAi silencing complex (RISC).
Normal wound healing requires fibroblast proliferation and migration into the wound bed followed by tightly regulated matrix deposition and contraction.
In cells grown at lower temperatures, the titrated factor may be less active, it may be produced at low concentrations, it may bind to arrays more tightly, or it may interact with its ligand less effectively.
These cells were tightly packed with thick and thin filaments and had many of the ultrastructural characteristics of smooth muscle cells including dense bodies and bands, occasional mitochondria, sacroplasmic reticulum, free ribosomes, caveolae and a basal lamina (Fig.