The Utility of Paradoxical Components in Biological Circuits

Molecular Cell

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 213-221

  Hart, Yuval ^a   Alon, Uri ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2; MICRORNA;

ADENYLATION; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; BIOMASS; CATALYSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOKINESIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; STEADY STATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOKINES; ENZYMES; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84872767054     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.01.004     Document Type: Review

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