Clonality and life cycles of intestinal crypts explained by a state dependent stochastic model of epithelial stem cell organization

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-54

  Loeffler, M ^a   Bratke, T ^b   Paulus, U ^b   Li, Y Q ^c   Potten, C S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Paterson Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE CRYPT; LIFE CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031557884     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0340     Document Type: Article

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