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The pseudotracheae secrete enzyme-filled saliva and soak up fluids and dissolved foods by capillary action.
We worked with a theme, which is, you've got macrophages that are streaming down a capillary, and they're touching the surface of the capillary wall, and they're picking up information from cells that are on the capillary wall, and they are given this information that there's an inflammation somewhere outside, where they can't see and sense.
But they get the information that causes them to stop, causes them to internalize that they need to make all of the various parts that will cause them to change their shape, and try to get out of this capillary and find out what's going on.
In the center, we have a porous, flexible membrane on which we can add human cells from, say, our lungs, and then underneath, they had capillary cells, the cells in our blood vessels.
And here's how it works: so you inject a sample in this tiny little capillary tube, and the cells go single file by a laser, and as they do, they scatter light according to their size and they emit light according to whatever pigments they might have, whether they're natural or whether you stain them.
Now if we look at animals, though, to be really maneuverable in all surfaces, the animals use hybrid mechanisms that include claws, and spines, and hairs, and pads, and glue, and capillary adhesion and a whole bunch of other things.
These leukocytes can be so large that they nearly fill a capillary causing a plasma space to open up in front of them.
He theorized that capillary action, the attraction between liquids and surfaces that pulls water through thin tubes, might keep the water cycling around the bowl.
But if the capillary action is strong enough to overcome gravity and draw the water up, it would also prevent it from falling back into the bowl.
Or capillary adhesion?
I take a little capillary, and you see it starts wicking in.
Now, I just seal this capillary by putting it in clay.
To accomplish this herculean task, the xylem relies on three forces: transpiration, capillary action, and root pressure.
This pull is aided by a fundamental property of water called capillary action.
This capillary motion is in full effect in xylem filaments thinner than human hair.
So we take a hair-thin glass tube, a capillary, and we collect that tiny droplet.
It's capillary action and transpiration pulls water up, a drop at a time, pulling it, releasing it from a leaf and pulling it up through the roots.
I will show how the capillary action works, how it feeds, I'll be able to get all the cells inside that stem.
They repeated the X-ray experiment, but with the crystal surrounded by its mother-liquor and sealed in a glass capillary, obtaining patterns with large numbers of crystalline reflections.
In fact, he explained, “the TB granuloma has many of the pathological features of cancer: hypoxia, a necrotic core, fibrous collagen at the outer rim, the development of a surrounding capillary network, and the presence of phagocytic cells.”