When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Extracellular matrix - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracellular_matrix

    In terms of injury repair and tissue engineering, the extracellular matrix serves two main purposes. First, it prevents the immune system from triggering from the injury and responding with inflammation and scar tissue. Next, it facilitates the surrounding cells to repair the tissue instead of forming scar tissue.

  3. History of human migration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_migration

    History of human migration. Human migration is the movement by people from one place to another, particularly different countries, with the intention of settling temporarily or permanently in the new location. It typically involves movements over long distances and from one country or region to another. The number of people involved in every ...

  4. Peopling of the Americas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopling_of_the_Americas

    Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [1]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...

  5. Human migration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_migration

    Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, [1] with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is the dominant form of ...

  6. Laminin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminin

    Laminins are a family of glycoproteins of the extracellular matrix of all animals. They are major constituents of the basement membrane, namely the basal lamina (the protein network foundation for most cells and organs). Laminins are vital to biological activity, influencing cell differentiation, migration, and adhesion. [1][2]

  7. European immigration to the Americas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_immigration_to...

    Between 1492 and 1820, approximately 2.6 million Europeans immigrated to the Americas, of whom just under 50% were British, 40% were Spanish or Portuguese, 6% were Swiss or German, and 5% were French. But it was in the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century that European immigration to the Americas reached its historic peak.

  8. Fibronectin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibronectin

    Two types of fibronectin are present in vertebrates: [6] soluble plasma fibronectin (formerly called "cold-insoluble globulin", or CIg) is a major protein component of blood plasma (300 μg/ml) and is produced in the liver by hepatocytes. insoluble cellular fibronectin is a major component of the extracellular matrix.

  9. Early human migrations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations

    Early human migrations. Putative migration waves out of Africa and back migrations into the continent, as well as the locations of major ancient human remains and archeological sites (López et al., 2015). Early human migrations are the earliest migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents.