CHEMOTAXIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemotaxis mean? 

• CHEMOTAXIS (noun)
  The noun CHEMOTAXIS has 1 sense:

1. movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus

  Familiarity information: CHEMOTAXIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMOTAXIS (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)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes small inducible cytokine A8 protein, plays a role in the chemotaxis of monocytes, lymphocytes, basophils and eosinophils.

(CCL8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in immune cell mobilization to promote pro-inflammatory responses; further, the gene plays a role in chemotaxis.

(CCR1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Rho and ROCK regulate actin stress fiber formation and are required for eosinophil chemotaxis.

(CCR3 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes small inducible cytokine A5 protein, plays a role in immune cell chemotaxis and histamine release.

(CCL5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes C-C motif chemokine 28 protein, plays a role in the modulation of chemotaxis.

(CCL28 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in chemotaxis and intercellular signal transduction.

(CCL26 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in chemotaxis.

(CCL28 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Metastin is an endogenous ligand of orphan GPR54 (GPCR) and appears to inhibit chemotaxis and metastasis.

(Metastin, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, this agent appears to modulate the expression of angiogenesis-related genes, such as hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1a) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), thus impairing endothelial cell chemotaxis and invasion.

(Panobinostat, NCI Thesaurus)

The activated Akt phosphorylates the Edg1 receptor on threonine 236 leading to the activation of Rac1 and subsequent signals leading to actin assembly, chemotaxis and lamellipodia formation.

(Phospholipid Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)