Sharpening of expression domains induced by transcription and microRNA regulation within a spatio-temporal model of mid-hindbrain boundary formation

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hock, Sabrina ^a,b   Ng, Yen Kar ^a   Hasenauer, Jan ^a,b   Wittmann, Dominik ^a,b   Lutter, Dominik ^a   Trümbach, Dietrich ^a   Wurst, Wolfgang ^a,c,d   Prakash, Nilima ^a   Theis, Fabian J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developemental Biology; Mid Hindbrain Boundary; miRNA Modeling; Spatio Temporal Model

Indexed keywords

MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MESENCEPHALON; METABOLISM; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MESENCEPHALON; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RNA, MESSENGER; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT1 PROTEIN;

EID: 84879243988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-7-48     Document Type: Article

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