Modeling of segmentation clock mechanism in presomitic mesoderm

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3267-3270

  Kazama, A ^a   Karashima, A ^a   Katayama, N ^a   Nakao, M ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; GENES;

CLOCK MODEL; MESENCHYMAL TISSUES; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; NOTCH SIGNALING PATHWAYS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; PRESOMITIC MESODERM; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

EID: 77950974807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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