Local kinetics of morphogen gradients

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6157-6162

  Peter V , Gordon ^a   Sample, Christine ^b,c   Berezhkovskii, Alexander M ^d   Muratov, Cyrill B ^a   Shvartsman, Stanislav Y ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration gradient; Robustness; Tissue regulation

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN;

BIOPHYSICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; KINETICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE;

EID: 79954992391     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019245108     Document Type: Article

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