Dynamic signal encoding-From cells to organisms

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2014, Pages 91-98

  Sonnen, Katharina F ^a   Aulehla, Alexander ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decoding; Development; Encoding; Information transmission; Patterning; Signalling dynamics

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RANTES; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FATE; CELL LEVEL; DYNAMICS; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODULATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MORPHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84914160432     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2014.06.019     Document Type: Review

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