Optimizing homeostatic cell renewal in hierarchical tissues.

In order to maintain homeostasis, mature cells removed from the top compartment of hierarchical tissues have to be replenished by means of differentiation and self-renewal events happening in the more primitive compartments. As each cell division is associated with a risk of mutation, cell division...

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Main Authors: Cesar Alvarado, Nicole A Fider, Helen J Wearing, Natalia L Komarova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5831642?pdf=render