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What is a tropism?

What is a tropism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) the turning of an organism in response to a stimulus, either towards or away from the stimulus
  2. (virology) viral tropism, or which type of tissue supports a certain virus
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It has a wide cell tropism and remains extra-chromosomal, therefore minimising the risk of insertional mutagenesis.
Still, Cuccinelli has shown his own tropism toward the kindness of strangers.
Our data demonstrate that factors in addition to the amount of PrP expressed determine the tropism of prions for certain tissues.
The object of the tropism is to keep the males and females in the nest until swarming time, and then to get them out.
Therefore, the 293E packaging cell line and K-coil-AdV constitute a useful platform for the generation of AdVs with modified tropism.
An envelope glycoprotein on the surface is thought to be responsible for mediating viral entry into cells, tissue tropism, and host range.

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