tropism
IPA: trʌpɪzʌm
noun
- (uncountable, biology) The turning of an organism (chiefly a plant) or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable, by extension, chiefly virology) A capability or tendency for a pathogen (chiefly a virus) to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism.
- (countable, figurative) Of a person: an instinctive predilection or tendency; also (generally), a liking, a preference.
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Examples of "tropism" in Sentences
- Why did you revert my changes to tropism
- AAV serotypes, receptors and native tropism.
- Statements about tropism are also dispersed.
- See HIV tropism and Replication cycle of HIV.
- Hence, tissue tropism must be a crucial factor.
- The Trofile assay is used to determine HIV tropism.
- Also see taxis, kinesis and tropism for other types of movement.
- HIV tropism of a patient's virus is measured by the Trofile assay.
- By mechanisms of host tropism, the viruses reach these proper locations.
- I don’t see how tropism is connected to suffering. allqsallthetime Says:
- This suggests that tissue tropism is determined after cellular infection.
- Such a turning in response to a stimulus is called a tropism (troh'pizm; "turning" G).
- This 'tropism' has been classically exhibited in the events surrounding the recent and intensely upsetting Flotilla incidents.
- A profound study of the motions of the Infusoria and a very penetrating criticism of the idea of tropism have been made recently by
- It would, therefore, be a misconception to speak of tropism as of reflexes, since tropisms are reactions of the organism as a whole, while reflexes are reactions of isolated segments.
- Aboody and her colleagues were the first to demonstrate in 2000 the inherent propensity of neural stem cells to home in on invasive tumor cells, also known as tropism, even migrating from the opposite side of the brain or across the blood-brain barrier.
- It is impossible to understand in this case, firstly, how a mutation could cause the eyes to be divided and doubly adapted to two different optic conditions, and, secondly, how at the same time a convenient 'tropism' should occur which caused the animal to swim with its eyes half in and half out of water.
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