Systems biology beyond networks: Generating order from disorder through self-organization

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 165-174

  Saetzler, K ^a   Sonnenschein, C ^b   Soto, A M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Early carcinogenesis; Emergentism; Reductionism; Self organization; Systems biology; Tissue morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 79960715759     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: 10963650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2011.04.004     Document Type: Review

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