"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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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tropism" by people in Profiles.
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DeFilippis DM, LaManna JA, Schnitzer SA. Frequency-dependent assembly processes determine the coexistence and relative abundance of tropical plant species. Nat Ecol Evol. 2025 Feb; 9(2):249-260.
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Wong DWL, Klinkhammer BM, Djudjaj S, Villwock S, Timm MC, Buhl EM, Wucherpfennig S, Cacchi C, Braunschweig T, Kn?chel-Clarke R, Jonigk D, Werlein C, B?low RD, Dahl E, von Stillfried S, Boor P. Multisystemic Cellular Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 in Autopsies of COVID-19 Patients. Cells. 2021 07 27; 10(8).
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Gerratana L, Davis AA, Polano M, Zhang Q, Shah AN, Lin C, Basile D, Toffoli G, Wehbe F, Puglisi F, Behdad A, Platanias LC, Gradishar WJ, Cristofanilli M. Understanding the organ tropism of metastatic breast cancer through the combination of liquid biopsy tools. Eur J Cancer. 2021 01; 143:147-157.
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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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Das Sarma J, Iacono K, Gard L, Marek R, Kenyon LC, Koval M, Weiss SR. Demyelinating and nondemyelinating strains of mouse hepatitis virus differ in their neural cell tropism. J Virol. 2008 Jun; 82(11):5519-26.
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Zhang T, Tsang TC, Harris DT. Efficient transduction of murine primary T cells requires a combination of high viral titer, preferred tropism, and proper timing of transduction. J Hematother Stem Cell Res. 2003 Feb; 12(1):123-30.
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Gosztonyi G, Koprowski H. The concept of neurotropism and selective vulnerability ("pathoclisis") in virus infections of the nervous system--a historical overview. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 2001; 253:1-13.
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Wang ZX, Berson JF, Zhang TY, Cen YH, Sun Y, Sharron M, Lu ZH, Peiper SC. CXCR4 sequences involved in coreceptor determination of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 tropism. Unmasking of activity with M-tropic Env glycoproteins. J Biol Chem. 1998 Jun 12; 273(24):15007-15.