Numerical simulations of microtubule self-organisation by reaction and diffusion

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 239-268

  Glade, Nicolas ^a,b   Demongeot, Jacques ^b   Tabony, James ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Bifurcations; Dissipative systems; Gravity; Microtubules; Numerical simulations; Reaction diffusion; Turing structures; Weak fields

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

BIOLOGY; SELF ORGANIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MORPHOGENESIS; PERCEPTION; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PERIODICITY; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPERATURE; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242585499     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022608400954     Document Type: Article

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