progenitors

英 [prəʊˈdʒɛnɪtəz]

美 [proʊˈdʒɛnɪtərz]

n.  (人或动、植物等的)祖先，祖代; 创始人; 先驱
progenitor的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 祖先
  Aprogenitorof someone is a direct ancestor of theirs.
  1. He was also a progenitor of seven presidents of Nicaragua.
     他也是尼加拉瓜7任总统的祖先。
• N-COUNT 创始人；鼻祖
  Theprogenitorof an idea or invention is the person who first thought of it.
  1. ...Clive Sinclair, progenitor of the C5 electric car.
     C5电动汽车的先驱克莱夫·辛克莱

双语例句

• O-2A progenitors could differentiate into type-2 astrocytes through longer period of proliferation than oligodendrocyte.
  O2A祖细胞定向分化为2型星形胶质细胞过程中经历较长的增殖期，而分化为少突胶质细胞过程中则增殖期较短；
• IBP is expressed in myeloid progenitors but down-regulated after induction of differentiation into macrophages, granulocytes, and erythrocytes.
  IBP在造血祖细胞中高表达，但在向粒细胞，红细胞，巨噬细胞分化的过程中表达降低。
• Blood progenitors which arise from the Drosophila embryonic mesoderm differentiate into various hemocytes, and these processes are controlled by hematopoiesis regulating factors.
  果蝇血细胞祖细胞来自于胚胎中胚层细胞，然后再分化为各种血细胞，这一系列分化过程由造血因子所调控。
• Yet the taste of the age, demanding whatever was elaborate in compositions of this kind, did not fail to extend its influence over our stern progenitors, who had cast behind them so many fashions which it might seem harder to dispense with.
  不过，时尚总在日益增加对这类精美制品的需求，这也不会影响不到我们严肃的祖先们，他们也确曾抛弃过许许多多看来是难以废除的风气。
• The real problem I have with the Progenitors are the Reasearch Tree and Drones.
  翻译：我认为真正的问题出在先祖的科技树和雄蜂。
• They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men.
  他们实用地继承了前辈的衣钵，改变自己以求一致，绝不可能成为高尚人类的先驱者。
• One group among which were the progenitors of humans and the other Old World primates living today took up a diurnal life, spread out into the trees, and made fruit an important part of their diet.
  有一群动物（包括了人类与其他现存旧世界的灵长类祖先）变成了昼行性动物，散布到森林里头，并将果实纳为重要的食物。
• Although both cell types come from cells known as myeloid progenitors, each type relies on its own set of functionally active genes to carry out its particular role in fighting infection.
  虽然这两种细胞都来源于髓样细胞祖先，但每一种细胞都依赖他们各自的一套功能基因的激活来实行他们的特殊功能，抵抗感染。
• The researchers also showed that the progenitors mature into neurons in Petri dishes.
  研究人员还表示，在佩特里培养皿中的脑细胞前体可以发育成神经元。
• It can be induced to proliferate directly into erythroid progenitors in a appropriate ex vivo culture condition, then to generate mature red blood cells after injection into the body.
  脐血是造血祖细胞的丰富来源之一，选择合适的培养条件，体外诱导其定向扩增为红系祖细胞，输入体内产生成熟红细胞。