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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… 
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Review
2011
Review
2011
Chemotaxis in cancer
Chemotaxis of tumour cells and stromal cells in the surrounding microenvironment is an essential component of tumour… 
Review
2009
Review
2009
A user’s guide to PDE models for chemotaxis
Mathematical modelling of chemotaxis (the movement of biological cells or organisms in response to chemical gradients) has… 
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… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Chemotaxis: signalling the way forward
During random locomotion, human neutrophils and Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae repeatedly extend and retract cytoplasmic… 
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… 
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… 
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… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
A method for measuring chemotaxis and use of the method to determine optimum conditions for chemotaxis by Escherichia coli.
  • J. Adler
  • Journal of General Microbiology
  • 1973
  • Corpus ID: 36100524
SUMMARY: Chemotaxis of a bacterium such as Escherichia coli is assayed by measuring the number of organisms attracted into a… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
The gradient-sensing mechanism in bacterial chemotaxis.
A "temporal gradient apparatus" has been developed that allows the motility of bacteria to be studied after they have been… 
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… 
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