Transcription, intercellular variability and correlated random walk

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-39

  Müller, Johannes ^a   Kuttler, Christina ^b   Hense, Burkhard A ^b   Zeiser, Stefan ^b   Liebscher, Volkmar ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bimodal distribution; Correlated random walk; Feedback; Intercell variability

Indexed keywords

BETA-DISTRIBUTION; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTIONS; BISTABLE BEHAVIORS; CORRELATED RANDOM WALK; CORRELATED RANDOM WALKS; EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS; GENE PRODUCTS; IN-LINE; INTERCELL VARIABILITY; PARAMETER SCANS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOPS; RANDOM DISTRIBUTIONS; SIMPLE MODELS; TRANSITION RATES;

CONTROL THEORY; FEEDBACK; RANDOM PROCESSES;

TRANSCRIPTION;

MESSENGER RNA;

CYTOLOGY; MODELING; RNA;

ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POSITIVE FEEDBACK;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 54249085297     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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