| homing behaviour | Instinctual patterns of activity related to a specific area including ability of certain animals to return to a given place when displaced from it, often over great distances using navigational clues such as those used in migration. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| homing value | In a cybernetic system such as homeostasis, that value of a trait of interest that the restorative forces are directed towards maintaining. (05 Mar 2000) |
| receptors, lymphocyte homing | Cell surface glycoproteins on lymphocytes and other leukocytes that mediate adhesion to specialised blood vessels called high endothelial venules. Several different classes of lymphocyte homing receptors have been identified, and they appear to target different surface molecules (addressins) on high endothelial venules in different tissues. The adhesion plays a crucial role in the trafficking of lymphocytes. (12 Dec 1998) |
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