A Computational Model of Liver Iron Metabolism

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Mitchell, Simon ^a   Mendes, Pedro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELLULAR CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; HAEMOCHROMATOSIS; IRON METABOLISM; MECHANISTICS; PROPERTY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REDOX PROPERTY; SYSTEM LEVELS; TIME COURSE;

IRON;

FERRITIN; HEPCIDIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ENZYME RELEASE; GENE MUTATION; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON KINETICS; IRON METABOLISM; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HEPCIDINS; HUMANS; IRON; KINETICS; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 84888229682     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003299     Document Type: Article

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