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Role of Polyamines in the Control of the Immune Response in the Brain

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Polyamine Cell Signaling

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Polyamines are essential polycations involved in a large variety of biological functions, including modulation of the nucleic acid conformation, RNA export and their degradation, protein synthesis, eIF-5A posttranslational modification, signal transduction, cell growth and differentiation, and tumor progression ( 1 –bi3. These various aspects in the biology of polyamines are addressed in other sections of this book.

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Soulet, D., Rivest, S. (2006). Role of Polyamines in the Control of the Immune Response in the Brain. In: Wang, JY., Casero, R.A. (eds) Polyamine Cell Signaling. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-145-1_16

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