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Definition of Amoeboid movement

Amoeboid movement
Amoebiform A*m[oe]"bi*form, Amoeboid A*m[oe]"boid, a. [Am[oe]ba + -form or -oid.] (Biol.) Resembling an am[oe]ba; am[oe]ba-shaped; changing in shape like an am[oe]ba. Am[oe]boid movement, movement produced, as in the am[oe]ba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

Meaning of Amoeboid movement from wikipedia

- Amoeboid movement is the most typical mode of locomotion in adherent eukaryotic cells. It is a crawling-like type of movement accomplished by protrusion...
- "amoeboid" and "amoeba" interchangeably for any organism that exhibits amoeboid movement. In older classification systems, most amoebae were placed in the...
- systems, while at the cellular level, it involves mechanisms such as amoeboid movement and flagellar propulsion. These cellular movements can be directed...
- mammalian cytoplasm with the aid of optical tweezers has been described. Amoeboid movement – Mode of locomotion in eukaryotic cells Cytoplasmic streaming – Flow...
- essentially all tissues, where they patrol for potential pathogens by amoeboid movement. They take various forms (with various names) throughout the body...
- determine the main differences between the mesenchymal and amoeboid types of cell movement during individual migration, as well as collective migration...
- (1 January 1982). "Caenorhabditis elegans ****tozoan locomotion: amoeboid movement with almost no actin". The Journal of Cell Biology. 92 (1): 121–131...
- The collective–amoeboid transition (CMT) is a process by which collective multicellular groups dissociate into amoeboid single cells following the down-regulation...
- two strands of actin. Microfilament functions include cytokinesis, amoeboid movement, cell motility, changes in cell shape, endocytosis and exocytosis...
- Amoebozoa Amorphous animals Amoebozoans Presence of pseudopodia for amoeboid movement, tubular cristae. approx. 2,400 Apicomplexa Apical infolds Apicomplexans...