Prickle
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Prickle may refer to:
- Prickle (botany), a sharp, needle-like structure
- Prickle cellPrickle cellA prickle cell is an epidermal cell which lies above the basal cell layer, constituting a stratum spinosum, which forms innumerable intercellular bridges. These intercellular bridges give the stratum spinosum a rough appearance to which the cells of which it is composed owe their name...
of the skin - Prickle (protein)Prickle (protein)The first prickle protein was identified in Drosophila as a planar cell polarity protein. Vertebrate prickle-1 was first found as a rat protein that binds to a transcription factor, neuron-restrictive silencer factor . It was then recognized that other vertebrates including mice and humans have two...
, a planar cell polarity protein - the collective noun for a pack of porcupines
- Prickle (Gumby character), a character on The Gumby Show