Illuminating cross talk between signalling factors
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
(Medical Xpress) -- Hypoxia and inflammation are environmental features occuring simultaneously in a variety of diseases such as growing tumours and critically inflamed tissues. UCD scientists investigating the relative contributions of the signalling pathways in each process have shown there is a synergistic response that is measurably greater than that expected from the individual contributions.