A synthetic mammalian network to compute population borders based on engineered reciprocal cell-cell communication

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kolar, Katja ^a   Wischhusen, Hanna M ^a,b   Müller, Konrad ^a,c   Karlsson, Maria ^a,d   Weber, Wilfried ^a   Zurbriggen, Matias D ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b DMK GmbH   (Germany)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Edge detect; Intercellular communication; Population borders; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 4; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL ENGINEERING; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL ENGINEERING; INTERLEUKIN-4; MAMMALS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84951965257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12918-015-0252-1     Document Type: Article

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