Simulating the Mammalian Blastocyst - Molecular and Mechanical Interactions Pattern the Embryo

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Krupinski, Pawel ^a   Chickarmane, Vijay ^b   Peterson, Carsten ^a,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; MAMMALS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DYNAMIC PROCESS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENES EXPRESSION; INTERACTION PATTERN; MAMMALIAN EMBRYOGENESIS; MECHANICAL FORCE; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; PROLIFERATING CELLS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLASTOCYST; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL MOTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; FORCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GERM LAYER; INNER CELL MASS; MAMMAL CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; TROPHECTODERM; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL DIVISION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM LAYERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79958174363     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001128     Document Type: Article

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