Modeling chemotactic cell sorting during Dictyostelium discoideum mound formation

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 595-605

  Vasiev, Bakhtier ^a   Weijer, Cornelis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MOTION; CELL SELECTION; CELL TYPE; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; VISCOSITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0032990060     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77228-0     Document Type: Article

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