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Chemotaxis

Known as: taxis in response to chemical stimulus, chemotropism, Chemotactic Process 
The directed movement of a motile cell or organism, or the directed growth of a cell guided by a specific chemical concentration gradient. Movement… Expand
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Tropism

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Review
2018
Review
2018
Effects of Acute and Chronic Exercise on Immunological Parameters in the Elderly Aged: Can Physical Activity Counteract the Effects of Aging?
Immunosenescence is characterized by deterioration of the immune system caused by aging which induces changes to innate and… Expand
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Review
2018
Review
2018
Cathelicidins: Immunomodulatory Antimicrobials
Cathelicidins are host defense peptides with antimicrobial and immunomodulatory functions. These effector molecules of the innate… Expand
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Review
2004
Review
2004
Making sense of it all: bacterial chemotaxis
Bacteria must be able to respond to a changing environment, and one way to respond is to move. The transduction of sensory… Expand
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Review
2004
Review
2004
Chemotaxis: signalling the way forward
During random locomotion, human neutrophils and Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae repeatedly extend and retract cytoplasmic… Expand
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Robust perfect adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis through integral feedback control.
Integral feedback control is a basic engineering strategy for ensuring that the output of a system robustly tracks its desired… Expand
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis
Networks of interacting proteins orchestrate the responses of living cells to a variety of external stimuli, but how sensitive is… Expand
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Genetic analysis of Escherichia coli biofilm formation: roles of flagella, motility, chemotaxis and type I pili.
We have used Escherichia coli as a model system to investigate the initiation of biofilm formation. Here, we demonstrate that E… Expand
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
A chemokine expressed in lymphoid high endothelial venules promotes the adhesion and chemotaxis of naive T lymphocytes.
Preferential homing of naive lymphocytes to secondary lymphoid organs is thought to involve the action of chemokines, yet no… Expand
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Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Model for chemotaxis.
Abstract The chemotactic response of unicellular microscopic organisms is viewed as analogous to Brownian motion. Local… Expand
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Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Chemotaxis in Bacteria
Motile Escherichia coli placed at one end of a capillary tube containing an energy source and oxygen migrate out into the tube in… Expand
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