Glioma is a type of primary tumor that arises from the glial cells — the connective tissue cells that surround and support nerve cells.

神经胶质瘤是来源于在神经细胞周围起支持作用的胶质细胞的一种原发肿瘤。

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Another barrier to water-soluble drugs is the glial connective tissue cells (astrocytes), which form an astrocytic sheath close to the basement membrane of the capillary endothelium.

水溶性药物的另一个屏障是胶质结缔组织细胞(星形细胞)，该细胞所形成的星形细胞鞘与毛细血管内皮基膜紧密邻接。

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The cells in the ovaries of frogs are very tightly held together by connective tissue.

在青蛙的卵巢里的细胞通过结缔组织紧密的链接在一起。

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He has managed to reprogram mouse connective-tissue cells so that they develop into cardiac muscle cells, and has tested them in the hearts of mice that have had heart attacks.

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Fast-forward a couple more years and Deepak Srivastava, a scientist at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco, found his own three-gene recipe for turning the plentiful, plebian cells that form connective tissue in the heart directly into cardiomyocytes, the cells that make the heart beat and are damaged by heart attacks.

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