Hyaluronan fragments: An information-carrying system?

Hormone and Metabolic Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 67-68

  Rossler A ^a   Hinghofer Szalkay, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Institute of Adaptive and Spaceflight Physiology   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HERMES ANTIGEN; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROCORTISONE; POLYSACCHARIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0037907623     PISSN: 00185043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-39062     Document Type: Short Survey

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