Reaction-Diffusion Systems and External Morphogen Gradients: The Two-Dimensional Case, with an Application to Skeletal Pattern Formation

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 666-687

  Glimm, Tilmann ^a   Zhang, Jianying ^a   Shen, Yun Qiu ^a   Newman, Stuart A ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical gradient; Pattern formation; Reaction diffusion; Spatially nonconstant reaction kinetics; Turing bifurcation

Indexed keywords

SHH PROTEIN, MOUSE; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIFFUSION; LIMB; LIMB MALFORMATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION; EXTREMITIES; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84856691887     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-011-9689-6     Document Type: Article

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