Intercellular communication: Diverse structures for exchange of genetic information

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 328-335

  Mittelbrunn, Maria ^a   Sánchez Madrid, Francisco ^a,b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE; MICRORNA; TRANSFER RNA;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXOSOME; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL-DERIVED MICROPARTICLES; HUMANS; PLANTS; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPSES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84860218631     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3335     Document Type: Review

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