Agent-based modeling of multicell morphogenic processes during development

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 344-353

  Thorne, Bryan C ^a   Bailey, Alexander M ^a   DeSimone, Douglas W ^b   Peirce, Shayn M ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Morphogenesis; Multicell

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED MODELING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LEVEL; ECOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE LEVEL; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VALIDITY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST;

EID: 38749114292     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20106     Document Type: Review

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