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Abstract
The spatial trajectories of human granulocytes moving on glass in two dimensions under an isotropic medium may be characterized as realizations of a correlated walk. The present model is similar to an earlier one for slime-mold amebae. The correlation from step to step is essentially via the relative angle theta, represented for granulocytes as a random variable with a symmetric bimodal density. As the cells age, they appear to turn less and the degree of correlation increases. Even under chemotaxis the angle theta and the step length r appear to be statistically independent.Entities:
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Year: 1979 PMID: 262393 PMCID: PMC1328471 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(79)85298-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033