Cell survival and multiplication the overriding need for signals: From unicellular to multicellular systems

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 137, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 123-128

  Rasmussen, L ^a   Christensen, S T ^a   Schousboe, P ^a   Wheatley, D N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell multiplication; Cell survival; Cyclic GMP; Escherichia coli; Evolution; NO; Phorbol esters; Protoporphyrin IX; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Signaling; Sodium nitroprusside; Tetrahymena thermophila

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHORBOL ESTER; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0029895605     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb08093.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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