Format:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783642201646
Series Statement:
Springer Proceedings in Mathematics Ser. v.15
Content:
This volume of fascinating mathematical brainteasers demonstrates how a combination of new discoveries in developmental biology and their associated modelling and computational techniques has and will stimulate relevant advances in modern biology.
Content:
Intro -- Pattern Formation in Morphogenesis -- Problems and Mathematical Issues -- Preface -- Contents -- Why Would a Mathematician Care AboutEmbryology? -- Part I: Biological Background -- Preface to the Biological Part -- Pattern Formation in Regenerating Tissues -- 1 Tissue Repair Versus Pattern Formation in Regenerating Tissues -- 2 Models of Pattern Formation in Regenerative Tissues -- 3 Development Versus Regeneration -- 4 Role of Stem Cells in Regenerative Biology and Pattern Formation -- References -- Gradients and Regulatory Networks of Wnt Signalling in Hydra Pattern Formation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Hydra Head Organiser Is an Organiser Equivalent to the Blastoporal Organiser in Bilaterians -- 3 An Autocatalytic Regulatory Network Maintains Wnt Signalling in the Hydra Head Organiser -- 4 The Wnt Gradient Is Transformed into a Gradient of Stable beta-Catenin Expression -- 5 Theses -- References -- Mathematical Modeling of Planar Cell Polarity Signaling -- References -- Integrated Molecular Circuits for Stem Cell Activity in Arabidopsis Roots -- References -- The Mechanics of Tissue Morphogenesis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Research Results -- 3 Open Questions and Problems -- Associated Publications -- Primary Articles -- Reviews -- Small Regulatory RNAs and Skeletal Muscle Cell Differentiation -- 1 New Roles for RNA -- 2 Small Regulatory RNAs -- 2.1 Cytoplasmic Small Regulatory RNAs: The MicroRNA Pathway -- 2.2 Nuclear Small Regulatory RNAs: Gene Silencing -- 3 Molecular Mechanisms -- 3.1 MicroRNAs in Development -- 3.2 MicroRNAs in Cell Differentiation -- 3.2.1 In Vivo Studies -- 3.2.2 In Vitro Experiments -- 3.3 Fishing for Targets -- References -- Pattern Formation in Sea Urchin Endomesoderm as Instructed by Gene Regulatory Network Topologies -- 1 Genomic Information Is Identical in All Cells and Underlies Functional Diversification.
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Additional Edition:
9783642441820
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9783642441820
Language:
English
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