Definition of Amoeboid movement. Meaning of Amoeboid movement. Synonyms of Amoeboid movement

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Definition of Amoeboid movement

Amoeboid movement
Amoebiform A*m[oe]"bi*form, Amoeboid A*m[oe]"boid, a. [Am[oe]ba + -form or -oid.] (Biol.) Resembling an am[oe]ba; am[oe]ba-shaped; changing in shape like an am[oe]ba. Am[oe]boid movement, movement produced, as in the am[oe]ba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

Meaning of Amoeboid movement from wikipedia

- Amoeboid movement is the most typical mode of locomotion in adherent eukaryotic cells. It is a crawling-like type of movement accomplished by protrusion...
- "amoeboid" and "amoeba" interchangeably for any organism that exhibits amoeboid movement. In older classification systems, most amoebae were placed in the...
- determine the main differences between the mesenchymal and amoeboid types of cell movement during individual migration, as well as collective migration...
- 207–221. PMID 10943416. De Bruyn, P. P. H. (March 1947). "Theories of amoeboid movement". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 22 (1). The University of Chicago...
- two strands of actin. Microfilament functions include cytokinesis, amoeboid movement, cell motility, changes in cell shape, endocytosis and exocytosis...
- Chaos is a genus of single-celled amoeboid organisms in the family Amoebidae. The largest and most-known species, the so-called "giant amoeba" (Chaos carolinensis)...
- mechanism of this euglenoid movement is not understood, but its molecular basis may be similar to that of amoeboid movement. In low moisture conditions...
- The collective–amoeboid transition (CMT) is a process by which collective multicellular groups dissociate into amoeboid single cells following the down-regulation...
- this process. Neutrophils undergo a process called chemotaxis via amoeboid movement, which allows them to migrate toward sites of infection or inflammation...
- different modes of movement exist: amoeboid movement, a crawling-like movement, which also makes swimming possible filopodia, enabling movement of the axonal...