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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2009

The signaling mechanisms underlying cell polarity and chemotaxis.

Fei Wang

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers.

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93citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

93 citing papers in PubMed, 157 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. [Advancement in neutrophil-based drug delivery systems].Zhejiang da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Zhejiang University. Medical sciences · 2025
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  6. Neutrophil diversity and function in health and disease.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fei WangDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. feiwang@life.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

Stem cell fate and embryonic developmentR01GM083812 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI WANG, FEI · 2007 to 2014
$2.4M
Multiscale analysis of neutrophil chemotaxis and signal integrationR01GM083601 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI RAO, CHRISTOPHER · 2007 to 2011
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM083601NIGMS NIH HHS GM083812NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM083601NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM083812
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemotaxis--the directed movement of cells in a gradient of chemoattractant--is essential for neutrophils to crawl to sites of inflammation and infection and for Dictyostelium discoideum (D. discoideum) to aggregate during morphogenesis. Chemoattractant-induced activation of spatially localized cellular signals causes cells to polarize and move toward the highest concentration of the chemoattractant. Extensive studies have been devoted to achieving a better understanding of the mechanism(s) used by a neutrophil to choose its direction of polarity and to crawl effectively in response to chemoattractant gradients. Recent technological advances are beginning to reveal many fascinating details of the intracellular signaling components that spatially direct the cytoskeleton of neutrophils and D. discoideum and the complementary mechanisms that make the cell's front distinct from its back.

Indexed as

Cell PolarityChemotaxisSignal TransductionActinsAnimalsChemotactic FactorsCytoskeletonDictyosteliumHumansModels, BiologicalNeutrophilsStaphylococcus aureusActinsChemotactic Factors

Identifiers

PMID20066099
PMCPMC2773618
OpenAlexW2149058887

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