Medical Definition of Nonreciprocal contact inhibition
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Collision behaviour between different cell types in which one cell shows contact inhibition of locomotion and the other does not. An example is the interaction between sarcoma cells and fibroblasts (the former not being inhibited).
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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