Modeling heterogeneous responsiveness of intrinsic apoptosis pathway

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ooi, Hsu Kiang ^a   Ma, Lan ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrinsic noise; Intrinsic apoptosis pathway; Intrinsic noise; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS;

APOPTOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84880334589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-7-65     Document Type: Article

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