Functional characteristics of a double negative feedback loop mediated by microRNAs

Cognitive Neurodynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 417-429

  Cai, Shuiming ^a,b   Zhou, Peipei ^b   Liu, Zengrong ^b  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bistable switch; Extrinsic noise; MDNFL; MicroRNAs; Post transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MIRNA MEDIATED DOUBLE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NOISE; PROTEIN MOTIF; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84885184596     PISSN: 18714080     EISSN: 18714099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11571-012-9236-7     Document Type: Article

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