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. 2016 Aug 10;5:28. doi: 10.1186/s40169-016-0113-6

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The difference between chemotaxis and chemokinesis. Cells may respond to a pro-migratory factor in two different ways: by directed movement, in the process chemotaxis, or by random multidirectional movement, in the process of chemokinesis. Both mechanisms may be involved in egress of cancer cells from the primary tumor