How to Use dendritic in a Sentence

dendritic

adjective

• These dendritic spines look like mushrooms with rounded heads and skinny, tiny necks.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2019
• That process begins with dendritic cells, which identify a virus or other pathogen and present examples of it to the rest of the immune system.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
• The method — previously used for flu and rabies vaccines — produces an immune response due to dendritic cells which are found in the skin.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2022
• Once there, the vaccine components encounter dendritic cells and macrophages—two types of immune cells that can sense when something foreign is sneaking around in the body.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
• The researchers also found that different genes were switched on in fetal dendritic cells than in adult dendritic cells.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 14 June 2017
• These cells, called dendritic cells, are better able to produce an immune response, Griffin said.
  — Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
• Along with most of the dendritic system of tributaries that drained the Uptown New Orleans watershed, the scenic spot fell victim to three phases of drainage history.
  — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• Lymph nodes are loaded with T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, and macrophages — all cells that are involved in identifying and mounting a response to infection.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2021
• In particular, the drugs appeared to fuel the growth of dendritic spines and axons, the appendages that brain cells of all sorts use to reach out in the darkness and create connections, or synapses, with other brain cells.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• Our dendritic cells—the tentacled sentries lurking in our tissues—have at least 10 receptors attuned to pathogens.
  — Brendan Borrell, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2020
• They have also been shown to increase the density of dendritic spines — small protrusions found on nerve cells — in turn spurring the growth of neuronal connections that can be lost in cases of chronic stress or depression.
  — Steve Volk, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
• Interestingly, the brain didn’t just restore dendritic spines willy nilly.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019
• Dendritic cells usually send out signals that ramp up proliferation of another type of immune cell, T cells, which then attack invaders.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 14 June 2017
• The rock is remarkable for its numerous dendritic structures, which are exposed in cross section and longitudinally.
  — David W. Frayer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• Monocytes can also differentiate into two other types of immune cells: phagocytes, which engulf and destroy microbes, and dendritic cells, which present T cells with antigens to help stimulate a more specific immune response.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Back in 2003, a trio of neuroscientists showed that the dendritic trees of a pyramidal neuron perform complex computations by modeling it as a two-layer artificial neural network.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2021
• Its lone axon, pointing straight down, and whiskery dendritic spines, which receive signals from neighboring neurons, alone in an empty landscape: the canonical depiction of Cajal’s discovery that neurons are distinct entities.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 3 May 2018
• Apparently the protein acts sluggishly in some bipolar patients, hampering neurons’ ability to form dendritic spines—little bumps that occur on the edges of nerve cells that are necessary for neural communication.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2018
• Apparently, the protein acts sluggishly in some bipolar patients, hampering neurons’ ability to form dendritic spines—little bumps that occur on the edges of nerve cells that are necessary for neural communication.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2018
• Ampligen appeared to rehabilitate some of her immunological deficiencies by restoring her dendritic and white blood cells to normal functioning.
  — Mike Mariani, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
• Laboratory and modeling studies have already shown that tiny compartments in the dendritic arms of cortical neurons can each perform complicated operations in mathematical logic.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
• The questions covered a wide swath of material, from the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution (physics), supercritical water (chemistry), dendritic drainage patterns (geomorphology) to prime factors (mathematics).
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024