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ArticleThe Journal of chemical physics2011

Physical interpretation of mean local accumulation time of morphogen gradient formation.

Alexander M Berezhkovskii, Stanislav Y Shvartsman

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Article in The Journal of chemical physics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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2 authors.

Alexander M BerezhkovskiiMathematical and Statistical Computing Laboratory, Division of Computational Bioscience, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. berezh@mail.nih.gov
Stanislav Y Shvartsman

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Modeling of kinetic processes in biological systemsZIACT000273 · CIT · CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY · PI BEREZHKOVSKII, ALEXANDER · 2009 to 2021
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Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The paper deals with a reaction-diffusion problem that arises in developmental biology when describing the formation of the concentration profiles of signaling molecules, called morphogens, which control gene expression and, hence, cell differentiation. The mean local accumulation time, which is the mean time required to reach the steady state at a fixed point of a patterned tissue, is an important characteristic of the formation process. We show that this time is a sum of two times, the conditional mean first-passage time from the source to the observation point and the mean local accumulation time in the situation when the source is localized at the observation point.

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DiffusionModels, BiologicalMorphogenesisAlgorithmsTime Factors

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PMID22029305
PMCPMC3215683

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