A chance-selection model for cell differentiation

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 385-390

  Kupiec, J J ^a  

^a INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

Author keywords

Cell differentiation; Gene expression; Model theoretical; Phosphatases; Protein kinases; Selection; Signal transduction; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029853061     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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