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Cytoplasmic Streaming

Medical Definition: The movement of CYTOPLASM within a CELL. It serves as an internal transport system for moving essential substances throughout the cell, and in single-celled organisms, such as the AMOEBA, it is responsible for the movement of the entire cell.
Guide Notes: permitted for micro-organisms also
Also Called: Protoplasmic Streaming
Previously Indexed: Cytoplasm (1966)
Cytoplasmic Streaming Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Axonal Transport - The directed transport of ORGANELLES and molecules along nerve cell AXONS. Transport can be anterograde (from the cell body) or retrograde (toward the cell body). (Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 3d ed, pG3)

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