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Cellular Telephone, New Products and the CPI
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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Cellular telephone is an example of a new product that has significantly affected how Americans live. Since their introduction in 1983, cellular telephone adoption has grown at 25-35% per year such that at year end 1996 about 42 million cellular telephones are in use in the U.S. However, cellular telephone has not been included in the construction of the CPI, and the CPI will not include cellular telephone until 1998 or 1999. This neglect of new goods leads to an upward bias in the CPI. The analysis of the paper demonstrates that the gains in consumer welfare from a new product such as cellular telephone can be substantial. The paper also gives an approximation result which the BLS could use to calculate gains in consumer welfare from new products for use in the CPI. The BLS telecommunications CPI estimates that since 1988, telecommunications prices have increased by 8.5% or an increase of 1.02% per year. This estimate ignores cellular service. A corrected telecommunication services COLI that includes cellular service decreased from 1.0 in 1988 to 0.903 in 1996 for a decrease of 1.28% per year. Thus, the bias in the BLS telecommunications services CPI equals approximately 2.3 percentage points per year. The neglect of new products in the CPI can lead to significant biases.


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Symposium-in-print : structural basis of information transfer and energy transduction in rhodopsins
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Oxford New York Tokyo Pergamon

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Signal transduction in plants
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Basel Boston, Mass. Berlin Birkhäuser Verlag

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Journal of lipid mediators and cell signalling.
ISSN: 1879159X Year: 1997 Publisher: New York, NY : Elsevier Science,

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Membranes and cell signaling
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ISBN: 1281222755 0080536115 1559388129 9781559388122 Year: 1997 Publisher: Greenwich, Conn. : JAI Press,

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It should not come as too much of a surprise that biological membranes are considerably more complex than lipid bilayers. This has been made quite clear by the fluid-mosaic model which considers the cell membrane as a two-dimensional solution of a mosaic of integral membrane proteins and glycoproteins firmly embedded in a fluid lipid bilayer matrix. Such a model has several virtues, chief among which is that it allows membrane components to diffuse in the plane of the membrane and orient asymmetrically across the membrane. The model is also remarkable since it provokes the right sort of questi

Receptor Signal Transduction Protocols
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ISBN: 0896034186 089603495X 1280836857 1592595677 9780896034181 Year: 1997 Volume: 83 Publisher: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana,

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R. A. J. Challiss assembles in Receptor Signal Transduction Protocols an outstanding collection of state-of-the-art methods from leading experts for interrogating ligand-receptor and receptor-effector interactions. These powerful methods emphasize the regulation of G-protein-coupled receptors and focus on receptor characterization, methods for investigating how receptors couple to G-proteins, and approaches to studying how receptor expression and function is regulated. Designed to be easily reproducible, the protocols offered include chimeric receptor construction, antibody generation, transient and stable transfection methods, in situ hybridization, as well as immunocytochemistry, functional assays of G-protein function, antisense methods for defining receptor-effector coupling pathways, and many more. Receptor Signal Transduction Protocols blends authoritative descriptions and applications of well-established methodologies with many novel techniques at the cutting edge of signal transduction research. The coverage cuts across disciplines and allows those already well-versed in one area to expand their repertoire of potent methods and broaden their research horizons. Every researcher interested in signal transduction today will find this richly practical guide indispensable.


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EGF receptor in tumor growth and progression.
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ISBN: 0387617205 3540617205 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berlin Springer


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Sphingolipid-mediated signal transduction
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ISBN: 3540627146 3662224275 3662224259 9783540627142 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York Springer

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Lipid-derived molecules are increasingly appreciated as key regulators of cell responses and signal transduction. Sphingolipid-derived bioactive molecules are emerging as critical regulators of some of the most exciting and, until recently, poorly-understood areas of biology such as growth suppression, programmed cell death and tumor invasion. Written by leading investigators in these areas of study, this book presents a thorough, current and accessible review of how sphingolipids function to regulate these important activities.

Platelets and their factors
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ISBN: 3540619976 3642644880 3642606393 Year: 1997 Volume: 126 Publisher: Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York Springer

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Platelets playa fundamental, life-saving role in hemostasis and blood clotting at sites of vascular injury. Unwanted platelet activation and arterial thombus formation are, however, implicated in the onset of myocardial infarction, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases. Acceptance that platelets play a major role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis including coronary heart disease has revolutionized the pharmacological treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and aspirin is now an essential antiplatelet drug and the golden standard for future developments. Yet the search for better and perhaps safer antiplatelet drugs is one of the most active areas of investigation in both basic and clinical research. Platelets, especially human platelets, have also emerged as one of the major models for the study of inter- and intracellular signal transduction pathways. Many biochemists, cell biologists, pharmacologists, pathologists, hematologists, and cardiologists find platelets useful for studying processes such as adhesion, inside-out and outside-in signalling through the plasma membrane, channels, calcium homeostasis, protein kinases, the network of intracellular signal transduction cascades, and the release of vasoactive substances. The aim of the editors has been to compile chapters summarizing the current state-of-the-art information on the biochemistry, cell biology, pharmacology, and physiologic and pathophysiologic roles of human platelets. We hope that this volume represents the major aspects of current platelet research although it is perhaps inevitable that certain areas are covered less thoroughly than others. We would like to acknowledge the excellent help and support of the Springer-Verlag staff, in particular that of Ms. Doris Walker.

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AGECP --- Acetyl glyceryl ether phosphorylcholine --- Affections plaquettaires --- Affections thrombocytaires --- Bloedplaatjes --- Bloedplaatjes--Activeringsfactor --- Bloedplaatjes--Stoornissen --- Blood platelet disorders --- Blood platelets --- Cellular information transduction --- Cellular signal transduction --- Celsignaal-transductie --- Facteur plaquettaire d'activation --- Factor [Plaatjes] activering --- Information transduction [Cellular ] --- PAF-acether --- Plaatjes [Bloed] --- Plaatjesfactor activatie --- Plaquettes sanguines --- Plaquettes sanguines--Troubles --- Platelet activating factor --- Platelets --- Signal transduction [Cellular ] --- Stoornissen van de bloedplaatjes --- Thrombocytes --- Thrombocytopathie --- Thrombocytopathy --- Thrombopathie --- Transduction du signal cellulaire --- Trombocyten --- Troubles des plaquettes sanguines --- Blood platelet disorders. --- Blood platelets. --- Cellular signal transduction. --- Platelet activating factor. --- Blood Platelets. --- Receptors. --- Receptors --- Pharmacology. --- Biochemistry. --- Human physiology. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Biochemistry, general. --- Human Physiology. --- Human biology --- Medical sciences --- Physiology --- Human body --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Chemicals --- Chemotherapy --- Drugs --- Pharmacy --- Composition --- Physiological effect --- Blood --- Information transduction, Cellular --- Signal transduction, Cellular --- Bioenergetics --- Cellular control mechanisms --- Information theory in biology --- Choline --- Ether lipids --- Inflammation --- Phospholipids --- Blood platelet receptors --- Platelet membrane receptors --- Platelet receptors --- Cell receptors --- Blood cells --- Megakaryocytes --- Diseases --- Mediators --- Activation

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