Molecular signaling network motifs provide a mechanistic basis for cellular threshold responses

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1261-1270

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Bhattacharya, Sudin ^a   Conolly, Rory B ^b   Clewell, Harvey J ^a   Kaminski, Norbert E ^c,d   Andersen, Melvin E ^a  

^a HAMNER INSTITUTES FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; METAL ION; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; POLLUTANT;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; APOPTOSIS; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROL SYSTEM; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTUITION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTANT; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING;

CELL SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 84936757411     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408244     Document Type: Review

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