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Cell Wall

"Cell Wall" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The outermost layer of a cell in most PLANTS; BACTERIA; FUNGI; and ALGAE. The cell wall is usually a rigid structure that lies external to the CELL MEMBRANE, and provides a protective barrier against physical or chemical agents.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cell Wall" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cell Wall" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 59 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2014 and 2017 and 2018
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