Morphogenetic gradients and the stability of boundaries between neighboring morphogenetic regions

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 156-178

  Kasatkin, Victor ^a   Prochiantz, Alain ^b   Holcman, David ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Boundary formation; Morphogenetic gradients; Noise analysis; Stability; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 38049060472     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-007-9246-5     Document Type: Article

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