Microbiorobotics

Chapter 3

Tetrahymena Pyriformis in Motion

Kőhidai László

Chemotaxis Research Group, Department of Genetics, Cell and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Nagyvarad ter 4. Budapest, H-1089, Hungary

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Tetrahymena

3.3 Migratory responses in biology

3.4 Specific signaling pathways

3.5 Microbiorobotics in Tetrahymena

3.6 Migration-specific phenomena

3.7 Strategies in migration assays in Tetrahymena

3.8 Concluding remarks

Acknowledgements

References

3.1 Introduction

Microbiorobotics embodies one of the best examples of interdisciplinarity developed in the last five years. Nanoscale to mesoscale engineering and chemistry provide the most significant elements of background sciences required to use biological entities as test objects ...