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Various aspects of random walks undertaken by motile bacteria and migrating leukocytes are discussed, including the motions of these cells when responding to gradients of chemoattractants. Brief reference also is made to studies of particle movements within the cytoplasm of eucaryotic cells.
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Nossal, R. Stochastic aspects of biological locomotion. J Stat Phys 30, 391–400 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01012313
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