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CHEMOTAXIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("chemotaxis" is a kind of...):

taxis (a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chemotaxis"):

negative chemotaxis (movement away from a chemical stimulus)

positive chemotaxis (movement toward a chemical stimulus)

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 Context examples: 

This allele, which encodes C-C chemokine receptor type 8 protein, plays a role in the regulation of monocyte chemotaxis and thymic cell apoptosis.

(CCR8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in the regulation of chemotaxis and apoptosis.

(CCR8 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in G protein-coupled signal transduction and chemotaxis.

(CCR5 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes C-C chemokine receptor type 5 protein, plays a role in monocyte chemotaxis and G protein-coupled signal transduction.

(CCR5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes which encodes small inducible cytokine A25 protein, plays a role in the chemotaxis of thymocytes, activated macrophages, THP-1 cells, and dendritic cells involved in inflammatory processes.

(CCL25 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes small inducible cytokine A20 protein, is involved in lymphocytes, neutrophils, and dendritic cell chemotaxis and the proliferation of myeloid progenitor cells.

(CCL20 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

C-C chemokine receptor type 11 (350 aa, 40 kD) is a cell motility protein that is encoded by the human CCRL1 gene and has roles in skeletal development, immune response, chemotaxis and signal transduction.

(C-C Chemokine Receptor Type 11, NCI Thesaurus)

C-C chemokine receptor type 9 (369 aa, 42 kD) is a cell motility protein that is encoded by the human CCR9 gene and has roles in cellular defense response, chemotaxis, immune response and signal transduction.

(C-C Chemokine Receptor Type 9, NCI Thesaurus)

C-C Chemokine Receptor-Like 2 (344 aa, 40 kD) is a cell motility protein that is encoded by the human CCRL2 gene and has roles in chemotaxis and signaling pathways.

(C-C Chemokine Receptor-Like 2, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in cellular chemotaxis and B-cell migration.

(BLR1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)