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  2. Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body - AOL

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    An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

  3. List of human cell types - Wikipedia

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    The Human Cell Atlas project, which started in 2016, had as one of its goals to "catalog all cell types (for example, immune cells or brain cells) and sub-types in the human body". [13] By 2018, the Human Cell Atlas description based the project on the assumption that "our characterization of the hundreds of types and subtypes of cells in the ...

  4. Cells all over the body store 'memories': What does this mean ...

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    According to Kukushkin, the memories stored in non-brain cells in other parts of the body are memories strictly related to the roles that those specific cells play in human health. Thus, he detailed:

  5. Composition of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Persons with more fat will have a higher proportion of carbon and a lower proportion of most other elements (the proportion of hydrogen will be about the same). The numbers in the table are averages of different numbers reported by different references. The adult human body averages ~53% water. [7] This varies substantially by age, sex, and ...

  6. Cellular extensions - Wikipedia

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    Cellular extensions also known as cytoplasmic protrusions and cytoplasmic processes are those structures that project from different cells, in the body, or in other organisms. Many of the extensions are cytoplasmic protrusions such as the axon and dendrite of a neuron, known also as cytoplasmic processes. Different glial cells project ...

  7. Human anatomy - Wikipedia

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    The human body consists of biological systems, that consist of organs, that consist of tissues, that consist of cells and connective tissue. The history of anatomy has been characterized, over a long period of time, by a continually developing understanding of the functions of organs and structures in the body.

  8. Human body - Wikipedia

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    The human body is the entire structure of a human being. It is composed of many different types of cells that together create tissues and subsequently organs and then organ systems. The external human body consists of a head, hair, neck, torso (which includes the thorax and abdomen), genitals, arms, hands, legs, and feet.

  9. Table of epithelia of human organs - Wikipedia

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    1 References. Toggle the table of contents ... Cell types. by origin; ... This table lists the epithelia of different organs of the human body. System Tissue ...