Recent progress using systems biology approaches to better understand molecular mechanisms of immunity

Seminars in Immunology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 201-208

  Gottschalk, Rachel A ^a   Martins, Andrew J ^a   Sjoelund, Virginie H ^a   Angermann, Bastian R ^a   Lin, Bin ^a   Germain, Ronald N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Global analysis; Heterogeneity; High throughput; Signaling networks; Single cell analysis; Transcriptional networks

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; SIGNALING NETWORKS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL NETWORKS;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; RECEPTOR CROSS-TALK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84887616973     PISSN: 10445323     EISSN: 10963618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2012.11.002     Document Type: Review

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