"Tropism" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The directional growth of an organism in response to an external stimulus such as light, touch, or gravity. Growth towards the stimulus is a positive tropism; growth away from the stimulus is a negative tropism. (From Concise Dictionary of Biology, 1990)
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D018523
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G07.345.249.845 G15.920
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tropism" by people in Profiles.
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Vertical mother-to-infant transmission of herpes simplex virus 2 is correlated with tropism due to mutations in viral UL13. J Med Virol. 2024 01; 96(1):e29379.
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A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Platform to Study SARS-CoV-2 Tropism and Model Virus Infection in Human Cells and Organoids. Cell Stem Cell. 2020 07 02; 27(1):125-136.e7.
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Fyn is downstream of the HGF/MET signaling axis and affects cellular shape and tropism in PC3 cells. Clin Cancer Res. 2011 May 15; 17(10):3112-22.