Chemotaxis

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Chemotaxis - Movement of cells or organisms toward or away from chemical stimuli.
[NABIR Bioremediation Glossary]

News archive for Chemotaxis:

Secretion of biologically active Interferon-gamma inducible ...  -  Jul 28, 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),Biological activity of L. lactis-secreted IP-10 was confirmed by Chemotaxis assay over human CD3+T lymphocytes. Conclusion: Expression and secretion of

Leukotriene B4-loaded microspheres: a new therapeutic strategy to ...  -  Jul 15, 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),In addition, it promotes polymorphonuclear leukocyte phagocytosis, chemotaxis, chemokinesis and modulates cytokines release. Regarding chemical instability

Activation of Gi3 triggers cell migration via regulation of GIV  -  Jul 28, 2008
Journal of Cell Biology (subscription)Gi3–GIV coupling is essential for cell migration during wound healing, macrophage chemotaxis, and tumor cell migration, indicating that the Gi3–GIV switch

What's New in Orthopaedic Research  -  Aug 1, 2008
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)...which are a class of chemicals that influence cell proliferation, local blood flow, vascular permeability, and inflammatory cell chemotaxis.

Modeling cellular deformations using the level set formalism  -  Jul 24, 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),...into mathematical simulations of cell signaling. Such methods will be useful for simulating important cellular events such as chemotaxis and cytokinesis.

In vitro behaviour of endothelial cells on a titanium surface  -  Jul 23, 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),Endothelial cells play an important role in the delivery of cells to the inflammation site, chemotaxis, cell adhesion and extravasation.

Pre-clinical characterization of GMP grade CCL21-gene modified ...  -  Jul 22, 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),Furthermore, supernatant from CCL21-DC induced the chemotaxis of T2 cells in vitro. Conclusions: Viable and biologically active clinical grade CCL21

Cellzome extends collaboration with J&J  -  Jul 10, 2008
PharmaLive.com (press release),...selective kinase inhibitors targeting key inflammatory mediators in immune receptor signaling and chemotaxis, such as PI3Kgamma and delta,

Nothing’s bugging ASU’s Stout  -  Jul 7, 2008
Arizona State University,It’sa movement she’s coined the “Chemotaxis Dance.� At times perplexing and insightful, inspiring questions and humor, Stout’s innovative arsenal of active

Tiny rods steer themselves  -  Nov 6, 2007
physicsworld.com,Many tiny organisms such as bacteria propel themselves towards food or away from toxins in a process called chemotaxis. Now researchers in the US have

The Swimming Nanorods  -  Nov 7, 2007
Technocrat.net,The process in nature is called chemotaxis and is the way bacteria move for example, in the direction of, or away from, a particular chemical solution.

Platinum-gold rods 'steer' themselves  -  Nov 7, 2007
Platinum today,Organisms such as bacteria are able to propel themselves through a solution via a process of chemotaxis, whereby the organisms are able to move in response

VioQuest Pharmaceuticals Announces Dosing of First Patient in ...  -  Nov 26, 2007
CNNMoney.comThe PTPases SHP-1 and SHP-2 modulate progenitor cell development, cellular growth, tissue inflammation, cellular chemotaxis, and directly control cell

Accelerated wound healing in leukocyte-specific, protein 1 ...  -  Nov 26, 2007
Journal of Leukocyte Biology (subscription)...protein and substrate of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and protein kinase C, and has been reported to be important in leukocyte chemotaxis.

Genmab to Present humax-IL8 Pre-Clinical Data  -  Nov 16, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),...blocks binding of IL-8 to neutrophils and inhibits neutrophils from migrating towards sites of inflammation via a process known as chemotaxis.

Omalizumab, Inhaled Corticosteroid Combo Decreases Asthma ...  -  Nov 13, 2007
DG News..."These effects have been shown to reduce mast cell degranulation and release of inflammatory mediators to decrease eosinophil chemotaxis.

Early growth response factor-1 in acute lung injury  -  Nov 12, 2007
AJP-Lung Physiology (subscription)TGF-1 (apoptosis, inflammation, and fibrosis) (14), fibronectin (extracellular matrix), matrix metalloproteinases (chemotaxis and tissue destruction),

Metastatix Granted Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for ...  -  Nov 6, 2007
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),The interaction between SDF-1 and CXCR4 has been shown to promote chemotaxis and angiogenesis in multiple cancer cell types. In preclinical studies, MSX-122

Blue-Light-Activated Histidine Kinases: Two-Component Sensors in ...  -  23 Aug 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)...used for environmental sensing by bacterial two-component systems, are involved in regulation of bacterial gene expression, chemotaxis, phototaxis,

New Microscope Watches Cells in 3D  -  Aug 13, 2007
SlashdotWhat if you want to study the chemotaxis of groups of cells? Most cells, eukaryote or prokaryote, talk to each other and can respond differentially to

Daniel Koshland  -  Jul 26, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,In the 1970s he shifted his focus on to how bacteria respond to their environments, a process known as chemotaxis, and established that bacteria have a form

A new mechanism for respiratory syncytial virus-induced 2 ...  -  Jul 31, 2007
AJP-Lung Physiology (subscription)...inflammation by mediating immune cell chemotaxis but also led to insensitivity of 2 -AR, and therefore limits the beneficial effect of 2 -agonists.

Health Related News From The American Chemical Society  -  Jul 26, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),In doing so, the researchers say, the droplet demonstrated a "primitive form of chemotaxis," one of the most basic cellular responses in which the cell

Full Text  -  Jul 26, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)When he moved to the Institut Curie in 2002, he began to study biological problems, including cellular adhesion, brain function, and chemotaxis of bacteria.

Daniel Koshland Dies At 87  -  Jul 26, 2007
Chemical & Engineering NewsHis later work on chemotaxis was very important and insightful." Working with Koshland as a student and later as a faculty colleague "was a pleasure because

Eminent biochemist Daniel Koshland has died  -  Jul 25, 2007
WebWire (press release),In the 1970s, he turned from enzymology to the study of how bacteria respond to their environment - a subject called chemotaxis - as a simple type of memory

Daniel Koshland dies  -  Jul 25, 2007
Scientist,Koshland shifted his research in the 1970s to focus on how bacteria respond to their environments, a process called chemotaxis. He showed that bacteria have




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