Endoplasm


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endoplasm

[′en·də‚plaz·əm]
(cell and molecular biology)
The inner, semifluid portion of the cytoplasm.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Endoplasm

in animals and plants, the interior layer of cytoplasm. The endoplasm lies next to the nucleus and contains more organoids and other inclusions than the ectoplasm. The endoplasm is distinctly marked in many protozoans and in some tissue cells, for example, fibroblasts. The cytoplasm is conventionally divided into the ectoplasm and the endoplasm.

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(28) When the concentration of [Ca.sup.++] in the endoplasm is increased from micromolar level to several ten micromolar, streaming of the endoplasm stops.
(30) When the endoplasm is squeezed into the medium, vesicle movement is inhibited by adding the phosphatase inhibitor, (31) and actually, Chara myosin treated with protein kinase C loses its motile activity.
Immature cysts may have iodine-stainable glycogen clumps and rod-like structures called chromatoid bodies with smooth rounded edges in their endoplasm. Cysts can live for up to 30 days in water; however, they are rapidly killed by drying and temperatures below 5[degrees]C and above 40[degrees]C.
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