0 the conditions relating to a particular organization, such as management, competitors, customers, etc.:
Shareholders are part of a company's microenvironment.
The mucilaginous sheath of blue-green algae has been considered as a potential microenvironment for bacteria.
The microenvironment created by non-blocking embryos in aggregates may rescue blocking embryos via cell-embryo adherent contacts.
Some genetic defects in the mouse can be rescued by making aggregation chimeras and thus altering the microenvironment of the defective cells.
Furthermore, specific groupings of macromolecules would be maintained in one microenvironment, rather than diffusing away from one another.
The microenvironment created by nonblocking embryos in aggregates may rescue blocking embryos via cell-embryo adherent contacts.
The successful establishment of a metastasis would then depend on the local microenvironment for structural support (extracellular matrix) and growth factors.
Metastatic breast cancer cells invade bone and secrete factors into the bone microenvironment that support osteoclastogenesis.
Simultaneously, a range of stromal-tissue-derived tissue repair mediators bathe the inflammatory microenvironment.