totipotency

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to·tip·o·tent

(tō-tĭp′ə-tənt, tō′tĭ-pōt′nt)

adj.

Relating to a cell, especially a fertilized egg, that is capable of differentiating into an unlimited number of specialized cell types.

to·tip′o·ten·cy n.

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Noun

totipotency - the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part; "animal cells lose their totipotency at an early stage in embryonic development"

totipotence

ability - the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

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to·ti·po·ten·cy

, totipotence

n. totipotencia, habilidad de una célula de regenerarse o desarrollarse en otro tipo de célula.

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The secrecy of micropropagation is totipotency, in which each cell has the potential to divide and produce all the differentiated cells of an organism (HARTMANN, 1997).

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Plants can be readily regenerated from cultured tissue; this characteristic is termed totipotency and is a robust tool for genetic engineering (Larkin and Scowcroft, 1981).

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The aim of the team was to gain insights in to the molecular features of totipotency and to work out how changes in cellular plasticity may occur.

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This is when the fertilized egg has only divided into four or eight cells that are still considered to retain the ability to produce all cell types (i.e., totipotency).

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What are signals that can reprogram differentiated cell back to totipotency need to be fully elucidated?

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In reproductive cloning by SCNT, the epigenetic signature of a differentiated somatic cell must be reset in a state resembling to totipotency and capability of driving full development after fusion of the cell to an enucleated oocyte cytoplast.

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The methods of somatic cell nuclear transfer, chromosome transfer, or fusion with ES cells have all been used to induce totipotency or pluripotency [134, 135].