An agent based model of integrin clustering: Exploring the role of ligand clustering, integrin homo-oligomerization, integrin-ligand affinity, membrane crowdedness and ligand mobility
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0021-9991/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2012.09.010 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, 208A Stanley Hall #1762, Berkeley, CA 947 United States. Tel.: +1 (510) 643 8165; fax: +1 (510) 642 5835. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.R.K. Mofrad). URL: http://biomechanics.berkeley.edu (M.R.K. Mofrad). Yousef Jamali, Tahereh Jamali, Mohammad R.K. Mofrad ⇑
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Comput. Physics
دوره 244 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013