microvillar en · ADJ
Etymology
From micro- + villar.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to a microvillus
At about 90% of pupal development (pd), after the onset of rhodopsin expression at 75% pd, RTW microfilaments elongated commensurate with the increasing microvillar length and gathered into bundles (Fig. 1 D).
2000 December 8, Hui-Yun Chang, Donald F. Ready, “Rescue of Photoreceptor Degeneration in Rhodopsin-Null Drosophila Mutants by Activated Rac1”, in Science, volume 290, number 5498, →DOI, pages 1978–1980:Brush border M1 tethers the microvillar core bundle to the plasma membrane of intestinal microvilli (3).
1998 January 23, Valerie Mermall et al., “Unconventional Myosins in Cell Movement, Membrane Traffic, and Signal Transduction”, in Science, volume 279, number 5350, →DOI, pages 527–533:
Deriveds
submicrovillar · amicrovillar · perimicrovillar · intermicrovillar · nonmicrovillar