Abstract
In the process of hemopoiesis, bone marrow stem cells differentiate into the various types of mature blood cells. We present a model for bone marrow dynamics, which retrieves its ability to continuously modulate the balance between self-renewal and differentiation, even under periodic cytodestructive perturbations. Yet, a temporally stochastic perturbation results in chaoticlike behaviour which has no deterministic source.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 231-237 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | BioSystems |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1992 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are much obliged to I. Procaccia and to D. Zipori for very helpful discussions. The work was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and by the Israeli Health Ministry.
Funding
We are much obliged to I. Procaccia and to D. Zipori for very helpful discussions. The work was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and by the Israeli Health Ministry.
Funders | Funder number |
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Israeli Health Ministry | |
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation |
Keywords
- Cellular automata
- Chaos
- Colony-forming units
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Stem cells