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Chemotaxis and Cell Aggregation

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics ((LNBM,volume 55))

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Chemotaxis is a phenomenon exhibited by motile cells, in which the direction of cell movement is influenced by the concentration gradient of a chemical stimulus. Chemotactic movement is usually toward the direction of higher stimulus concentration, so that the stimulus is termed a chemoattractant. This phenomenon is exhibited by cells of both procaryotic and eucaryotic types, ranging from bacteria and protozoa to white blood cells and tumor cells.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Douglas A. Lauffenburger

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  1. Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Im Neuenheimer Feld 294, 6900, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany

    Willi Jäger

  2. Mathematics Institute, Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, 24-29 St. Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LB, Great Britain

    James D. Murray

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Lauffenburger, D.A. (1984). Chemotaxis and Cell Aggregation. In: Jäger, W., Murray, J.D. (eds) Modelling of Patterns in Space and Time. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45589-6_17

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