multinucleate

Examples of multinucleate in the following topics:

• Types of Muscle Tissue

  • These muscle fibers are cylindrical, multinucleate in nature.
  • Skeletal muscle is striated, multinucleate, and involuntary.

• Cell Structure, Metabolism, and Motility

  • Still other protists are composed of enormous, multinucleate, single cells that look like amorphous blobs of slime, or in other cases, similar to ferns.
  • Many protist cells are multinucleated; in some species, the nuclei are different sizes and have distinct roles in protist cell function.

• Protist Life Cycles and Habitats

  • Plasmodial slime molds are composed of large, multinucleate cells and move along surfaces like an amorphous blob of slime during their feeding stage .
  • Haploid spores develop into amoeboid or flagellated forms, which are then fertilized to form a diploid, multinucleate mass called a plasmodium.
  • The brightly-colored plasmodium in the inset photo is a single-celled, multinucleate mass.

• Chorionic Villi and Placental Development

  • The latter is a multinucleated, continuous cell layer that covers the surface of the placenta.

• Rhizaria

  • The diploid phase is multinucleate, and after meiosis fragments to produce new organisms.

• Microscopic Anatomy

  • In cardiac muscle, intercalated discs connecting cardiomyocytes to the syncytium, a multinucleated muscle cell, to support the rapid spread of action potentials and the synchronized contraction of the myocardium.

• Type IV (Delayed Cell-Mediated) Reactions

  • Activated CD8+ T cells destroy target cells on contact, whereas activated macrophages produce hydrolytic enzymes and, on presentation with certain intracellular pathogens, transform into multinucleated giant cells.

• Cell Types in Bones

  • The cell responsible for bone resorption, or breakdown, is the osteoclast, which is found on bone surfaces, is multinucleated, and originates from monocytes and macrophages (two types of white blood cells) rather than from osteogenic cells.

• Archaeplastida

  • In addition, some chlorophytes exist as large, multinucleate, single cells.

• Amoebozoa and Opisthokonta

  • Plasmodial slime molds are composed of large, multinucleate cells that move along surfaces like an amorphous blob of slime during their feeding stage.