Dynamic modeling of miRNA-mediated feed-forward loops

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 188-199

  Eduati, Federica ^a   Di Camillo, Barbara ^a   Karbiener, Michael ^b   Scheideler, Marcel ^b   Corà, Davide ^c   Caselle, Michele ^d   Toffolo, Gianna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Section of Clinical Pharmacology   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

biochemical networks; computational molecular biology

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADIPOGENESIS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOGENESIS; ALGORITHMS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84856763727     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2011.0274     Document Type: Article

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