A dynamically changing intracellular water network serves as a universal regulator of the cell: The water-governed cycle

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 357, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 331-334

  Szolnoki, Zoltán ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology   (Hungary)

Author keywords

ATP; Biochemical oscillator; Chaos; Enzyme; Fractal; Network; Regulation; Water

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ENZYME; WATER;

CELL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; COVALENT BOND; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BODY WATER; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; FEEDBACK; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PROTEINS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 34247380767     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.03.161     Document Type: Short Survey

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