Directional sensing during chemotaxis
Open Access
- 29 April 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 582 (14) , 2075-2085
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2008.04.035
Abstract
Cells have the innate ability to sense and move towards a variety of chemoattractants. We investigate the pathways by which cells sense and respond to chemoattractant gradients. We focus on the model...Keywords
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