Development of a three dimensional multiscale computational model of the human epidermis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Adra, Salem ^a   Sun, Tao ^b   MacNeil, Sheila ^a   Holcombe, Mike ^a   Smallwood, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDERMIS; FORCE; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR;

CELLS, CULTURED; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77952477710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008511     Document Type: Article

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