Modelling Hair Follicle Growth Dynamics as an Excitable Medium

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Murray, Philip J ^a   Maini, Philip K ^a   Plikus, Maksim V ^b   Chuong, Cheng Ming ^c   Baker, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CELL BEHAVIOURS; EPITHELIAL TISSUE; EXCITABLE MEDIA; GROWTH CYCLE; GROWTH DYNAMICS; HAIR FOLLICLES; MOLECULAR REGULATION; SCALE OF OBSERVATION; SPATIAL SCALE; STEM-CELL;

STEM CELLS;

BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN KRT14; PROTEIN NOG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT7A PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIMULATION; WILD TYPE;

EID: 84872037438     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002804     Document Type: Article

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