Paracrine communication maximizes cellular response fidelity in wound signaling

Population averaging due to paracrine communication can arbitrarily reduce cellular response variability. Yet, variability is ubiquitously observed, suggesting limits to paracrine averaging. It remains unclear whether and how biological systems may be affected by such limits of paracrine signaling....

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Main Authors: L Naomi Handly, Anna Pilko, Roy Wollman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2015-10-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/09652