Self-organizing circuitry and emergent computation in mouse embryonic stem cells

Stem Cell Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 324-333

  Halley, J D ^a   Smith Miles, K ^b   Winkler, D A ^b,c   Kalkan, T ^a   Huang, S ^d,e   Smith, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AUTOREGULATION; CALCULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 84856101150     PISSN: 18735061     EISSN: 18767753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2011.11.001     Document Type: Review

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