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chemotaxis

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chemotaxis

In biology, the property that certain cells have of attracting or repelling other cells. For example, white blood cells are attracted to the site of infection by the release of substances during certain types of immune response.
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Beyond the gestational seeding of macrophages to different tissues and initial maturation in situ, there is a special perinatal maturation of macrophages (particularly alveolar) that enables them to acquire increasing host defense capabilities (phagocytosis, chemotaxis, tumor necrosis factor-[alpha] production, antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity) with increased postnatal age (Goldman et al.
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