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... in parallel with systems to integrate and transduce this information, and systems to respond to it. * Tandem repeats may have the capacity to mediate each of these roles. A sensory apparatus may detect transcription factors through interactions, but for high temporal resolution, these interactions ...

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... Arachidonate is “stored” as an esterified fatty acid in membranes. When released by the action of lipases, metabolites of arachidonate are used to mediate various biological processes such as pain perception and blood pressure, to name two. Aspirin’s analgesia is due largely to the fact that aspirin ...

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... (And there are many, including many ligands, receptors, SMADs, SMAD inhibitors, chordin/noggin, etc. etc.) Also note that BMP is unlikely to mediate anti-oncogenic apoptosis. BMP is a secreted ligand capable of acting over relatively large distances. If your body used high [BMP] to kill cancerous ...

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... therapy products. Human gene therapy/gene transfer is the administration of nucleic acids, viruses, or genetically engineered microorganisms that mediate their effect by transcription and/or translation of the transferred genetic material, and/or by integrating into the host genome. Cells may ...

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... photons are absorbed less efficiently (lower action rate due to photons higher energy) *The blue light receptors do a variety of the following: mediate blue light-induced phototropism (circadian rhythms), chloroplast re-localization, opening of the stomatal aperture and stimulates proton pumps ...

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