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What does chemotaxis mean?

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  1. (biology) the movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant
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This produces a very reasonable strategy for chemotaxis, in which the bacterium follows the concentration gradient of one sugar alone.
Additional granulocytes are attracted and directed to the sites of infection in a process called directed migration, or chemotaxis.
The mechanism of aggregation involves both chemotaxis of individual cells, and the propagation of the chemotactic signal from one ameba to another.
They may stimulate different functions including angiogenesis, enzyme production, cell migration, chemotaxis, and cellular proliferation.
These include regulation of collagen synthesis, inflammatory cell chemotaxis, and DNA synthesis.
Using chemotaxis and thermotaxis as behavioral paradigms, neural plasticity including learning and memory can be studied genetically in C. elegans.

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