Plant polyphenols in cell-cell interaction and communication

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 609-611

  Tarahovsky, Yury S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bilayer structure; Cell communication; Flavonoids; Human evolution; Lipid rafts; Membranes; Polyphenols; Tannins

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649118280     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.8.6359     Document Type: Article

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