A self-organized model for cell-differentiation based on variations of molecular decay rates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Hanel, Rudolf ^a   Pöchacker, Manfred ^a   Schölling, Manuel ^a   Thurner, Stefan ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC REGULATORY NETWORK; HOMEOSTASIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DECAY RATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; KINETICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PERIODICITY;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HOMEOSTASIS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERIODICITY;

EID: 84861714630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036679     Document Type: Article

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