chemotaxis
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- bacterial movement
- In bacteria: Flagella, fimbriae, and pili
Chemotaxis allows a bacterium to adjust its swimming behavior so that it can sense and migrate toward increasing levels of an attractant chemical or away from a repellent one.
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- In bacteria: Flagella, fimbriae, and pili
- effect on neutrophils
- In neutrophil
…will move is known as chemotaxis and is attributed to substances liberated at sites of tissue damage. Of the many neutrophils circulating outside the bone marrow, half are in the tissues and half are in the blood vessels; of those in the blood vessels, half are within the mainstream of…
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- In neutrophil
- microglia
- In microglia
…the cells to move via chemotaxis (movement along a chemical gradient). For many years the function of microglia was unclear. However, today it is known that these cells mediate immune responses in the central nervous system by acting as macrophages, clearing cellular debris and dead neurons from nervous tissue through…
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- In microglia
response to
- infection
- In infectious disease: Natural and acquired immunity
…process called directed migration, or chemotaxis.
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- In infectious disease: Natural and acquired immunity
- tissue damage
- In blood: Neutrophils
…will move is known as chemotaxis and is attributed to substances liberated at sites of tissue damage. Of the 100 billion neutrophils circulating outside the bone marrow, half are in the tissues and half are in the blood vessels. Of those in the blood vessels, half are within the mainstream…
Read More - In inflammation: Cellular changes
…along the gradient is called chemotaxis.
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- In blood: Neutrophils