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Activator–Inhibitor Control of Tissue Growth

Author(s) -

John A. Adam

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

siam review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.683

H-Index - 120

eISSN - 1095-7200

pISSN - 0036-1445

DOI - 10.1137/1033101

Subject(s) - activator (genetics) , simple (philosophy) , computer science , computational biology , calculus (dental) , biology , medicine , biochemistry , epistemology , philosophy , receptor , dentistry

This note develops a simple model for the competition between activator and inhibitor control mechanisms in one-dimensional tissue growth. The pedagogic usefulness of such a model is that it is easily accessible to undergraduate applied mathematicians and is suggestive of behavior known to occur in more realistic biological systems (e.g., some types of cancer). The limitations of the model are obvious and can provide a basis for discussion of the applicability of complementary levels of description in mathematical modeling.

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