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Directed locomotory response of cells to an anisotropy of the environment, for example the tendency of fibroblasts to align along ridges or parallel to the alignment of collagen fibres in a stretched gel.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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