Systems biology of stem cells: Three useful perspectives to help overcome the paradigm of linear pathways

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1575, 2011, Pages 2247-2259

  Huang, Sui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Dynamics; Gene regulatory networks; Heterogeneity; High dimensional state space

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HETEROGENEITY; LINEARITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 79960074631     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0008     Document Type: Review

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