Simulating the formation of keratin filament networks by a piecewise-deterministic Markov process

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 518-532

  Beil, Michael ^a   Lück, Sebastian ^b   Fleischer, Frank ^c   Portet, Stéphanie ^d   Arendt, Wolfgang ^b   Schmidt, Volker ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Intermediate filaments; Network architecture; Network formation; Piecewise deterministic Markov process

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; MARKOV CHAIN; PROTEIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DIFFUSION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; KERATINS; MARKOV CHAINS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 58549110022     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.09.044     Document Type: Article

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