signaling mechanism

collocation in English

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signal
adjective[before noun]
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/ˈsɪɡ.nəl/us
/ˈsɪɡ.nəl/
noticeable ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
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/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us
/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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In this way, institutional interference creates noise in thesignalingmechanismthat reduces its informational efficiency.
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But where we have an establishedsignalingmechanism, used in the normal way-say the turn indicator-there is no need to ponder my intentions. 13.
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Critical to the success of thesignalingmechanismdescribed above is a 'good' institutional framework.
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Section 4 demonstrates how 'bad' institutions destroy thesignalingmechanismthat enables trade between heterogeneous agents and in doing so increase fractionalization.
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If licensing authorities accepted the appropriateness of using fast-track review systems to promote public health, they could vary the characteristics of the fast-track system as asignalingmechanism.
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Globin-coupled sensors and protoglobins share a commonsignalingmechanism.
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An end-to-endsignalingmechanismto detect the success/failure of the effort is also provided.
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Butyrate inhibits colonic tumor cells, and promotes healthy colonic epithelial cells; but thesignalingmechanismis not well understood.
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Thissignalingmechanismmay have been involved in evolution from unicellular to multicellular organisms.
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Foreshadowing his later ideas, he believed price controls interfered with an essentialsignalingmechanism to help resources be used where they were most valued.
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Although some of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that control these processes have been described, myelin-axon signaling mechanisms are still poorly understood.
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This process constitutes an effective cell-cellsignalingmechanismvia membrane vesicle trafficking from secretory cell to the target cells in human or animal body.
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Yamaguchi's research fields include the bone and calcium endocrinology and metabolism, nutritional prevention of osteoporosis, and the exploration of intracellularsignalingmechanism.
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The second is the cell to cellsignalingmechanismmediated by specific tanycyte compounds.
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Effects of cautery on the butterfly wing eyespot foci are indicative of a long rangesignalingmechanism or morphogen gradient, both in its spacial and temporal aspects.
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The notchsignalingmechanismis an example of juxtacrine signaling (also known as contact-dependent signaling) in which two adjacent cells must make physical contact in order to communicate.
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He showed that perturbations of cellular signaling mechanisms that regulate developmental neuroplasticity are responsible for synaptic dysfunction and cell death in neurodegenerative disorders.
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This can include: reducing the plants internal signaling mechanisms or reduction of phytochemicals production.
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