A simple expression for quantifying bacterial chemotaxis using capillary assay data: Application to the analysis of enhanced chemotactic responses from growth-limited cultures
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A simple expression for quantifying bacterial chemotaxis using capillary assay data: Application to the analysis of enhanced chemotactic responses from growth-limited cultures
zbMATH Open document ID: 0749.92012
DOI: 10.1016/0025-5564(92)90042-U
author: Roseanne M. Ford
author: Douglas A. Lauffenburger
published in: Mathematical Biosciences
publication date: 1992-09-27T00:00:00Z
review text: An individual cell-based mathematical model provides a framework for determining values of the chemotactic sensitivity coefficient \(\chi{_ 0}\), an intrinsic cell population parameter that characterizes the chemotactic response of bacterial populations. This coefficient can theoretically relate the swimming behavior of individual cells to the resulting migration of a bacterial population. When this model is applied to the commonly used capillary assay, an approximate solution can be obtained for a particular range of chemotactic strengths yielding a very simple analytical expression for estimating the value of \(\chi{_ 0}\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92C99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92C40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92-08
zbMATH DE Number: 64800
zbMATH Keywords: individual cell-based mathematical model
zbMATH Keywords: chemotactic sensitivity coefficient
zbMATH Keywords: chemotactic response of bacterial populations
zbMATH Keywords: capillary assay
MaRDI profile type: Publication
Wikidata QID: Q30437309
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