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For a century, a major part of physiology and pharmacology has been devoted to the investigation of the mechanisms which transform a stimulus into a message. All the present notions are still based on the revolutionary concept of Paul Ehrlich: “Corpora nun agunt nisi fixata”. Substances cannot act without binding, and, as far as the physical stimuli are concerned, one can consider that the stimulus modifies the binding of pre-existing biochemical components. The aim of this survey, is to illustrate the various mechanisms which transform external stimuli into cellular messages.
Plenary lecture presented at the 8th GIRI Meeting, December 1994, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Bonne, C. (1997). From Stimulus to Message in Biological Systems, an Illustrated Survey. In: Bastide, M. (eds) Signals and Images. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5804-6_7
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