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Definition of Chemotactic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Chemotactic
1. A response of motile cells or organisms in which the direction of movement is affected by the gradient of a diffusible substance. Differs from chemokinesis in that the gradient alters probability of motion in one direction only, rather than rate or frequency of random motion. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemotactic
Literary usage of Chemotactic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"J Granulocyte Mobility Induced by chemotactic Factor in the Agarose Plate ...
In their proposal, ses to chemotactic (and/or che- factor are classified into ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1891)
"He tilled capillary tubes with positive chemotactic material, ... The chemotactic
properties of leucocytes remind one very much of the so-called tactile ..."
3. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"When, for example, the abscess has ruptured or has been incised, with removal of
the chemotactic substances, there may be less chemotactic substances in the ..."
4. A Study of Synapsis and Reduction by Ira Detrich Cardiff (1906)
"Synapsis is probably the end-result of fertilization and a stage of great
chemotactic activity. CONCLUSION From the foregoing results it will be seen that ..."
5. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"It was also observed that if the positively chemotactic substances were injected
... If a tube containing positively chemotactic substances (dead beer-yeast ..."
6. The Clinical Journal (1902)
"In the same way the soluble products of bacteria exert a chemotactic action more
or less positive, according to the less or greater virulence of the ..."
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