Changing directions in the study of chemotaxis

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 455-463

  Kay, Robert R ^a   Langridge, Paul ^a,b   Traynor, David ^a   Hoeller, Oliver ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN II; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTION; CHEMOTAXIS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; DICTYOSTELIUM; HUMANS;

EID: 44349138348     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2419     Document Type: Review

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