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adj. - Pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry; Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).

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  • Using their technique, the research team have shown that a particular subset of the pancreatic cells, the so-called acinar cells, are indeed stem cells.
  • As Bensley and others have shown there may still remain, at this period after duct-ligation, a considerable amount of more or less normal acinar tissue.
  • The vertebrate pancreas contains islet, acinar and ductal cells.
  • This effect was more profound in acinar cells prepared from InsP
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