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Tracking the Activation of Heat Shock Signaling in Cellular Protection and Damage

Shisui Torii1, Pasko Rakic1

  • 1Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.

Cells
|May 14, 2022
PubMed

Keywords:
Heat Shock Factor 1Heat Shock Protein 70Heat Shock signalingdetection of injuryepigeneticsgenetic recombinationheterogeneityreporter micetranscriptional amplificationtranscriptional bursting

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