Chemokinesis is
chemically prompted
kinesis, a motile response of unicellular
prokaryotic or
eukaryotic organisms to chemicals that cause the cell to make some kind of change in their migratory/swimming behaviour. Changes involve an increase or decrease of speed, alterations of amplitude or frequency of motile character, or direction of migration. However, in contrast to
chemotaxis, chemokinesis has a random, non-vectorial moiety, in general.
[1]
[2]
Due to the random character, techniques dedicated to evaluate chemokinesis are partly different from methods used in chemotaxis research. One of the most valuable ways to measure chemokinesis is computer-assisted (see, e.g.,
Image J) checker-board analysis, which provides data about migration of identical cells, whereas, in Protozoa (e.g.,
Tetrahymena), techniques based on measurement of opalescence were also developed.
[3]
Chemokinesis is
chemically prompted
kinesis, a motile response of unicellular
prokaryotic or
eukaryotic organisms to chemicals that cause the cell to make some kind of change in their migratory/swimming behaviour. Changes involve an increase or decrease of speed, alterations of amplitude or frequency of motile character, or direction of migration. However, in contrast to
chemotaxis, chemokinesis has a random, non-vectorial moiety, in general.
[1]
[2]
Due to the random character, techniques dedicated to evaluate chemokinesis are partly different from methods used in chemotaxis research. One of the most valuable ways to measure chemokinesis is computer-assisted (see, e.g.,
Image J) checker-board analysis, which provides data about migration of identical cells, whereas, in Protozoa (e.g.,
Tetrahymena), techniques based on measurement of opalescence were also developed.
[3]