...-receptor-mediated motility, we used fibroblasts that are either deficient or that express CD74/CD44 proteins, and treated them with recombinant MIF/D-DT. Interestingly, only MIF could stimulate chemokinesis in the presence or absence of CD74/CD44. The pro-migratory effects of MIF depended on lipid raft...

... a mechanistic insight into nicotinergic control of keratinocyte motility, we determined types of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and signaling pathways regulating keratinocyte chemokinesis and chemotaxis, using respective modifications of the agarose gel keratinocyte outgrowth assay. Random migration...

..., directed migration of OPCs towards basic fibroblast growth factor was not affected by the removal of PSA. Moreover, inactivation of PSA does not interfere with the random migration pattern of cells in uniform concentrations of PDGF (chemokinesis). These results suggest that PSA-NCAM is specifically...

... used to decrease the percentage of cells containing focal adhesions, and hence enhance locomotion, was newborn rat heart-conditioned medium (HCM). Addition of HCM to rat embryo fibroblasts induced both chemokinesis and chemotaxis. Cells disassembled focal adhesions on a variety of extracellular matrix...

... of infection. * Present address: Department of Microbiology, University of Stockholm S106-91 Stockholm, Sweden. 06 05 1986 20 05 1986 © 1986 by Company of Biologists 1986 chemokinesis haemocytes phenoloxidase The circulating leucocytes of insects, the haemocytes...