Medical Definition of Basal rod
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Rod shaped intracellular organelle lying below the undulating membrane of Trichomonas.
Generates active bending associated with local loss of birefringence at the bending zone, probably as a result of conformational change in the longitudinal lamellae. Major protein approximately 90 kD.
(10 Nov 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basal Rod
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