Mathematical modeling of vertebrate limb development

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Zhang, Yong Tao ^a   Alber, Mark S ^a,b   Newman, Stuart A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Mathematical model; Multi scale model; Vertebrate limb development

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; MULTISCALE MODELS; ORDINARY AND PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VERTEBRATE LIMB;

BIOLOGY; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN PATCHED; SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HAND2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; LIMB; MORPHOGENESIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; VERTEBRATE;

BONE STRUCTURE; CELLULAR POTTS MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DILLON OTHMER MODEL; EVOLUTION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GIERER MEINHARDT REACTION DIFFUSION MODEL; GLAZIER GRANER HOGEWEG MODEL; HUMAN; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEINHARDT BOUNDARY MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NAVIER STOKES MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SKELETON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE; WILBY AND EDE MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84875841423     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: 18793134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2012.11.003     Document Type: Review

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