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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Emergence of function from coordinated cells in a tissue.

Indika Rajapakse, Stephen Smale

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Membrane voltage multistability in coupled glial cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  2. Dynamic sensor selection for biomarker discovery.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. Mapping parameter spaces of biological switches.PLoS computational biology · 2021
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  11. Collective Growth in a Small Cell Network.Current biology : CB · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Indika RajapakseDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Medical School, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105; smale@math.berkeley.edu indikar@umich.edu.
Stephen SmaleDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 smale@math.berkeley.edu indikar@umich.edu.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work presents a mathematical study of tissue dynamics. We combine within-cell genome dynamics and diffusion between cells, so that the synthesis of the two gives rise to the emergence of function, akin to establishing "tissue homeostasis." We introduce two concepts, monotonicity and a weak version of hardwiring. These together are sufficient for global convergence of the tissue dynamics.

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Cell Physiological PhenomenaModels, BiologicalAlgorithmsCell CommunicationCellsDiffusionGenomeHomeostasisMorphogenesisdiffusionemergencegenome dynamicsmonotonicitytissue dynamics

Identifiers

PMID28137861
PMCPMC5321023

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