Quantifying the Waddington landscape and biological paths for development and differentiation

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

Volumn 108, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 8257-8262

  Wang, Jin ^a,b   Zhang, Kun ^a   Xu, Li ^a   Wang, Erkang ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TYPE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EPIGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WADDINGTON LANDSCAPE;

ANIMALS; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHINA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STEM CELLS;

EID: 79957710315     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017017108     Document Type: Article

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