Ctenophores can do without synapses because their neurons fuse together during development and share a continuous membrane called syncytium. It’s possible that the ability to integrate distinct ...

The readout of these early assays amounted to the ability of certain viruses to form syncytia, which are visible as giant cells under the light microscope; such viruses were called syncytium inducing.

this should initially be carried out in a naive rodent model to test the hypothesis that engrafted muscle constructs survive in vivo and integrate into the functional syncytium of the recipient heart.