0 any of the thread-like parts that form plant or artificial material and can be made into cloth: --
1 a substance in certain foods, such as fruit, vegetables, and brown bread, that travels through the body as waste and helps the contents of the bowels to pass through the body easily: --
3 a thread-like part made from plants or artificial material which can be made into products: --
Major elastic-fibre molecules that mediate cell adhesion are outlined below.
In cell cultures, tropoelastin expression is generally low, and ordered elastic fibres are not often deposited.
We have produced recombinant human tropoelastin, and characterised coascervation in the absence or presence of other elastic-fibre molecules, thereby generating composite elastic-fibre biomaterials.
Despite exceptional recent research progress in understanding elastic-fibre assembly and function, many questions remain to be addressed.
Can we exploit understanding of the molecular organisation of elastic fibres to engineer robust replacement elastic tissues such as small-diameter arteries and ligaments?
Were the plants used as a source of food and applications for its fibres were realized later or was it vice versa?
This combing process also separated the fibres to some extent.
Each time the roller passed over the flax stem some of the shive separated from the fibre.
