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General Information
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| Term |
central escort cell |
ID (Ontology) |
FBbt:00048536 (Fly Anatomy) |
| Definition |
Cell belonging to the population of escort cells between the anterior and posterior escort cells (Eliazer et al., 2014). They have highly branched and dynamic protrusions (Banisch et al., 2017). With the posterior escort cells, they form a differentiation compartment for germline cysts (Banisch et al., 2017).[ FlyBase:FBrf0224400 FlyBase:FBrf0235678 FlyBase:FBrf0247148 ] |
| Also Known As |
"cEC" ; "central EC" ; "central inner germarial sheath cell" (for all, see Synonyms field below) |
| Comment |
Can be distinguished from other escort cell subtypes based on expression of hh, Pdk1 and GstS1 (Rust et al., 2020). |
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central escort cell (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements) | 1 |
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