Receptor oligomerization as a process modulating cellular semiotics

Biosemiotics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-176

  Giorgi, Franco ^a   Bruni, Luis Emilio ^b   Maggio, Roberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autocrine signalling; Receptor evolvability and robustness; Triadic causality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955052967     PISSN: 18751342     EISSN: 18751350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12304-010-9085-x     Document Type: Article

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