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. 1979 Feb;25(2 Pt 1):365-72.
doi: 10.1016/s0006-3495(79)85298-4.

Trajectories of human granulocytes

R L Hall, S C Peterson

Trajectories of human granulocytes

R L Hall et al. Biophys J. 1979 Feb.

Abstract

The spatial trajectories of human granulocytes moving on glass in two dimensions under an isotropic medium may be characterized as realizations of a correlated walk. The present model is similar to an earlier one for slime-mold amebae. The correlation from step to step is essentially via the relative angle theta, represented for granulocytes as a random variable with a symmetric bimodal density. As the cells age, they appear to turn less and the degree of correlation increases. Even under chemotaxis the angle theta and the step length r appear to be statistically independent.

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