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What does extranuclear mean?

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Adjective
  1. Outside the nucleus.
  2. (biology) Outside the nucleus but within the cell cytoplasm.
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But given that all properties come in nuclear-extranuclear pairs, one might say: The round square exemplifies only nuclear roundness and squareness, while every existent square exemplifies extranuclear squareness.
For an atom to be electrically neutral, it must contain the same number of extranuclear electrons as there are protons in the nucleus.
These specific monoclonal antibodies recognize the extranuclear estrogen receptor of the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line.
It is important to see the nucleus and the rod-shaped kinetoplast, a mitochondrial structure containing extranuclear DNA, to diagnose leishmaniasis.
Previous micromechanical studies of isolated nuclei have reported that nuclei are significantly stiffer than the extranuclear, cytoplasmic space of the cell.
To define mechanisms underlying heritable changes in the phenotype, we analyzed the possibility of extranuclear inheritance by transferring some factors via the male.

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