Post-natal stem cells as participants in complex systems and the emergence of tissue integrity and function

Pediatric Diabetes, Supplement

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 75-78

  Hussain, Mehboob A ^a   Thiese, Neil D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Emergence; Stem cells; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 11444255116     PISSN: 17451426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-543x.2004.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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