title: Necrotaxis.
abstract: By the word necrotaxis is understood a collection of phenomena provoked by sudden cell death, or more exactly by the agony of a cell killed by the experimenter (Bessis, 1963). Recent work has followed three approaches: the role of the cytoplasm, and of anucleated fragments; the role of calcium; and the study of the direction or orientation of movement, by biophysical methods. Numerous questions remain unanswered: the presence or absence of relationship with immune phenomena and the comparison of necrotaxis and apoptosis.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bernard
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000502:physiology; D016923:Cell Death / Q000502:physiology*; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000502:physiology; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D002118:Calcium