 Tropism
"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) |
G07.700.320.249.845 G15.744.900
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| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tropism" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Keith SW, Brown AW, Heo M, Heymsfield SB, Allison DB. Re: "Annurca Apple Nutraceutical Formulation Enhances Keratin Expression in a Human Model of Skin and Promotes Hair Growth and Tropism in a Randomized Clinical Trial" by Tenore et al. (J Med Food 2018;21:90-103). J Med Food. 2019 12; 22(12):1301-1302.
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Morrison SG, Giebel AM, Toh EC, Spencer HJ, Nelson DE, Morrison RP. Chlamydia muridarum Genital and Gastrointestinal Infection Tropism Is Mediated by Distinct Chromosomal Factors. Infect Immun. 2018 07; 86(7).
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P?pin D, Sosulski A, Zhang L, Wang D, Vathipadiekal V, Hendren K, Coletti CM, Yu A, Castro CM, Birrer MJ, Gao G, Donahoe PK. AAV9 delivering a modified human Mullerian inhibiting substance as a gene therapy in patient-derived xenografts of ovarian cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Aug 11; 112(32):E4418-27.
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