A multi-cell, multi-scale model of vertebrate segmentation and somite formation

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Hester, Susan D ^a   Belmonte, Julio M ^a   Gens, J Scott ^a   Clendenon, Sherry G ^a   Glazier, James A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION; CELL SIGNALING; CELLS; CLOCKS;

'CURRENT; BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS; CLOCK PERIOD; MULTICELL; MULTISCALE MODELING; SEGMENTAL STRUCTURE; SOMITE FORMATION; SOMITOGENESIS; SUBMODELS; VERTEBRATE DEVELOPMENT;

WAVEFRONTS;

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; LUNATIC FRINGE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; WNT3A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SELECTION; CELL SIZE; CELL TYPE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8 GENE; GENE; GROWTH RATE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LUNATIC FRINGE GENE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NOTCH GENE; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; SOMITE; SOMITOGENESIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIOLOGY; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITES; WNT3A PROTEIN;

EID: 80055094020     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002155     Document Type: Article

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