WNT and DKK determine hair follicle spacing through a reaction-diffusion mechanism

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5804, 2006, Pages 1447-1450

  Sick, Stefanie ^a   Reinker, Stefan ^b,c   Timmer, Jens ^b   Schlake, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIGMENTS;

APPENDAGE DENSITY; MODERATE SUPPRESSION; MORPHOGENETIC PROGRAM;

PROTEINS;

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN DKK; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; DIFFUSION; HAIR; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DENSITY; DIFFUSION; EPIDERMIS; HAIR FOLLICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN APPENDAGE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DIFFUSION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HAIR; HAIR FOLLICLE; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MATHEMATICS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 33845301220     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130088     Document Type: Article

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