response to light). Motility also includes physiological processes like gastrointestinal movements and peristalsis. Understanding motility is important in...
14 KB (1,628 words) - 22:19, 23 December 2024
lack of a means of self-locomotion. Sessile animals for which natural motility is absent are normally immobile. This is distinct from the botanical concept...
4 KB (472 words) - 08:59, 24 December 2024
surface of low aqueous films. The mechanisms of this motility are only partially known. Twitching motility also allows microorganisms to travel along a surface...
13 KB (1,590 words) - 06:11, 22 November 2024
Adventurous motility is as a type of gliding motility; unlike most motility mechanisms, adventurous motility does not involve a flagellum. Gliding motility usually...
12 KB (1,525 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2024
Twitching motility is a form of crawling bacterial motility used to move over surfaces. Twitching is mediated by the activity of hair-like filaments called...
22 KB (2,651 words) - 07:12, 4 January 2024
Flagellum (redirect from Flagellar motility)
spores (zoospores), and from a wide range of microorganisms to provide motility. Many protists with flagella are known as flagellates. A microorganism...
66 KB (7,259 words) - 04:56, 9 December 2024
Gastroparesis (category Gastrointestinal motility disorders)
(2010). "Motility of the antroduodenum in healthy and gastroparetics characterized by wireless motility capsule". Neurogastroenterology & Motility. 22 (5)...
66 KB (6,988 words) - 08:32, 3 December 2024
Mannitol motility medium is a bacterial growth medium used to detect the ability of bacteria to ferment mannite and produce nitrogen gas; and to indicate...
2 KB (184 words) - 21:47, 18 June 2023
Primary motility disorders are: Achalasia Diffuse esophageal spasm Nutcracker esophagus Hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter An esophageal motility disorder...
7 KB (621 words) - 15:40, 21 September 2024
Bacterial motility is the ability of bacteria to move independently using metabolic energy. Most motility mechanisms that evolved among bacteria also...
109 KB (12,267 words) - 17:52, 22 September 2024
enterocolitica Motility Master Regulatory Operon, flhDC, Is Required for Flagellin Production, Swimming Motility, and Swarming Motility". Journal of Bacteriology...
12 KB (1,197 words) - 02:46, 20 March 2024
Throwing Like a Girl (redirect from Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality)
"Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality" is a 1980 essay by political philosopher and feminist Iris...
13 KB (1,810 words) - 17:55, 30 September 2023
concentration can also contribute to the activation of sperm motility. In some mammals, sperm motility is activated by increase in pH, calcium ion and cAMP,...
12 KB (1,501 words) - 10:05, 26 December 2024
environments. Motility assays can be utilized to quantitatively measure the macroscopic motility of a specimen. To perform a motility assay, semi-solid...
13 KB (1,622 words) - 17:59, 12 July 2024
An esophageal motility study (EMS) or esophageal manometry is a test to assess motor function of the upper esophageal sphincter (UES), esophageal body...
3 KB (313 words) - 17:00, 25 January 2023
Proteus mirabilis (section Swarming motility)
Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. It shows swarming motility and urease activity. P. mirabilis causes 90% of all Proteus infections...
12 KB (1,254 words) - 14:00, 6 August 2024
Peristalsis (redirect from Gut motility)
PERR-ih-STAL-siss, US also /-ˈstɔːl-/ -STAWL-) is a type of intestinal motility, characterized by radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles...
14 KB (1,657 words) - 19:00, 21 December 2024
Neurogastroenterology & Motility is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering neurogastroenterology and gastrointestinal motility. It was established...
3 KB (142 words) - 22:44, 29 April 2023
Enteric nervous system (section Motility disorders)
Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society European Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility Neurogastroenterology & Motility Basal electrical rhythm...
20 KB (2,198 words) - 22:39, 2 December 2024
Gastrointestinal physiology (redirect from Intestinal motility)
assist in digestion. The major processes that occur in the GI tract are: motility, secretion, regulation, digestion and circulation. The proper function...
16 KB (1,861 words) - 02:14, 17 September 2024
Amoeboid movement (redirect from Amoeba motility)
cells may also exhibit rapid transitions between amoeboid motility and mesenchymal motility, another form of cellular movement. Dictyostelium cells and...
17 KB (2,103 words) - 20:31, 14 September 2024
Glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (redirect from Autocrine motility factor)
protein known as autocrine motility factor (AMF). AMF produced and secreted by cancer cells and stimulates cell growth and motility as a growth factor. AMF...
27 KB (3,057 words) - 12:53, 9 September 2024
as a motility disorder of the esophagus, meaning that it is caused by abnormal movement, or peristalsis of the esophagus. People with motility disorders...
17 KB (1,793 words) - 21:46, 10 August 2024
Eye movement (redirect from Ocular motility disorders)
Ophthalmology: A Systematic Approach. Boston:Butterworth-Heinemann;1989. Awwad, S. "Motility & Binocular Vision" Archived 7 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine. EyeWeb...
29 KB (3,667 words) - 20:09, 3 December 2024
Microfilament functions include cytokinesis, amoeboid movement, cell motility, changes in cell shape, endocytosis and exocytosis, cell contractility...
21 KB (2,785 words) - 01:20, 2 December 2024
Semen analysis (redirect from Motility grade)
move or dead sperms. The total motility reference of 40% can be divided in a 32% of progressive motility and 8% of motility in situ. Semen samples which...
35 KB (4,358 words) - 17:06, 27 December 2024
Esophagus (section Motility disorders)
varices that can bleed heavily, tears, constrictions, and disorders of motility. Diseases may cause difficulty swallowing (dysphagia), painful swallowing...
46 KB (5,422 words) - 05:28, 15 December 2024
Motility is an album by American jazz pianist Steve Kuhn, recorded for ECM in January 1977 and released in April later that year, Kuhn's second album with...
3 KB (192 words) - 15:47, 31 March 2024
Actin assembly-inducing protein (redirect from Actin-based motility)
been shown that ActA is not only necessary but also sufficient to induce motility of bacteria in the absence of other bacterial factors. ActA was discovered...
17 KB (2,132 words) - 15:00, 6 July 2024
'pomA' mutant of Vibrio alginolyticus can regain motility by expression of MotA. As restoring motility of pomA mutants by heterologous expression of MotA...
4 KB (437 words) - 14:25, 31 July 2024