Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1991

DOI

10.1137/1033101

Publication Title

SIAM Review

Volume

33

Issue

3

Pages

462-466

Abstract

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.

Comments

First published in SIAM Review, in Volume 33, Issue 3, published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Copyright © by SIAM. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited.

Original Publication Citation

Adam, J. A. (1991). Activator-inhibitor control of tissue growth. SIAM Review, 33(3), 462-466. doi:10.1137/1033101

ORCID

0000-0001-5537-2889 (Adam)

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