Incorporating active transport of cellular cargo in stochastic mesoscopic models of living cells

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1691-1714

  Hellander, Andreas ^a   Lötstedt, Per ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Active transport; Microtubule network; Multiscale model; Next subvolume method; Reaction diffusion master equation; Stochastic simulation; URDME

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; MICROTUBULE NETWORKS; MULTISCALE MODELS; NEXT SUBVOLUME METHOD; REACTION DIFFUSION; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; URDME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 79251490718     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/100784709     Document Type: Article

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