Trans-membrane signal transduction and biochemical Turing pattern formation
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The Turing mechanism for the production of a broken spatial symmetry in an initially homogeneous system of reacting and di using substances has attracted much interest as a potential model for certain aspects of morphogenesis such as pre-patterning in the embryo, and has also served as a model for self-organization in more generic systems. The two features necessary for the formation of Turing patterns are short-range autocatalysis and long-range inhibition which usually only occur when the di usion rate of the inhibitor is signi cantly greater than that of the activator. This observation has sometimes been used
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The Turing mechanism (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 237 (1952) 37) for the production of a broken spatial symmetry in an initially homogeneous system of reacting and diffusing substances has attracted much interest as a potential model for certain aspects of morphogenesis (Models of Biological Pattern Formation, Academic Press, London, 1982; Nature 376 (1995) 765) such as pre-patterning in the embryo....
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