Predicting pancreas cell fate decisions and reprogramming with a hierarchical multi-attractor model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Zhou, Joseph Xu ^a,b,c   Brusch, Lutz ^a   Huang, Sui ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 6; NEUROGENIN 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAFA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; ENDOCRINE CELL; EXOCRINE CELL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PANCREAS CELL; PANCREAS ISLET ALPHA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET DELTA CELL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PANCREAS; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PANCREAS; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 79952660497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014752     Document Type: Article

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