A chemical (chemotactic) agent that induces an organism or a cell, a leukocyte, to migrate toward it.
Chemoattractant
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Chemoattractants are inorganic or organic substances possessing chemotaxis inducer effect in motile cells. Effects of chemoattractants are elicited via described or hypothetic chemotaxis receptors, the chemoattractant moiety of a ligand is target cell specific and concentration dependent. Most frequently investigated chemoattractants are formyl peptides and chemokines. Chemorepellents are substances expressing adverse migratory effect.
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