Information homeostasis as a fundamental principle governing the cell division and death

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 318-322

  Kumar, Arvind ^a   Singh, Harinder Pal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Laboratory Medicine and Transfusion Medicine   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL DIVISION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEOPLASM;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 80051827920     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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