Transcriptional noise and cellular heterogeneity in mammalian macrophages

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1467, 2006, Pages 495-506

  Ramsey, S ^a   Ozinsky, A ^a   Clark, A ^a   Smith, K D ^a,b   De Atauri, P ^a   Thorsson, V ^a   Orrell, D ^a   Bolouri, H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression noise; Macrophage signalling; Size scaling; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROGENEITY; MAMMAL; NOISE; YEAST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MACROPHAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33646349488     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1808     Document Type: Article

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