What Is a Syncytium?
A mass of cytoplasm containing multiple nuclei surrounded by a layer of cell membrane, usually due to cell fusion or a series of incomplete cell division cycles.
Syncytia
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- Chinese name
- Syncytia
- Foreign name
- syncytium
- Syncytia
- A cytoplasm that surrounds multiple nuclei by a layer of cell membrane
- Changed
- The nucleus divides, but the cell does not divide
- A mass of cytoplasm containing multiple nuclei surrounded by a layer of cell membrane, usually due to cell fusion or a series of incomplete cell division cycles.
- Unlike Syncytin (syncytiotrophoblast), syncytium contains a cluster of cytoplasm with multiple nuclei surrounded by a cell membrane. This is usually due to cell fusion or a series of incomplete cells In the latter case, the nucleus divides, but the cell does not divide.
- Syncytin is a type of retrovirus capsule protein captured by humans, which is closely related to the differentiation process of trophoblast to syncytiotrophoblast during morphogenesis of placenta. Syncytin and human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) envelope protein (Env) have similar structural characteristics, and they may have similar membrane fusion mechanisms.