 Tropism
"Tropism" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The directional growth of an organism in response to an external stimulus such as light, touch, or gravity. Growth towards the stimulus is a positive tropism; growth away from the stimulus is a negative tropism. (From Concise Dictionary of Biology, 1990)
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D018523
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G07.345.249.845 G15.920
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| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tropism" by people in Profiles.
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Valiente M, Van Swearingen AED, Anders CK, Bairoch A, Boire A, Bos PD, Cittelly DM, Erez N, Ferraro GB, Fukumura D, Gril B, Herlyn M, Holmen SL, Jain RK, Joyce JA, Lorger M, Massague J, Neman J, Sibson NR, Steeg PS, Thorsen F, Young LS, Vare?lija D, Vultur A, Weis-Garcia F, Winkler F. Brain Metastasis Cell Lines Panel: A Public Resource of Organotropic Cell Lines. Cancer Res. 2020 10 15; 80(20):4314-4323.
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Medina-P?rez DN, Wager B, Troy E, Gao L, Norris SJ, Lin T, Hu L, Hyde JA, Lybecker M, Skare JT. The intergenic small non-coding RNA ittA is required for optimal infectivity and tissue tropism in Borrelia burgdorferi. PLoS Pathog. 2020 05; 16(5):e1008423.
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O'Neil SP, Mossman SP, Maul DH, Hoover EA. In vivo cell and tissue tropism of SIVsmmPBj14-bcl.3. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 1999 Jan 20; 15(2):203-15.
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