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Type: | Conference paper |
Title: | Modeling development and disease in our "second" brain |
Author: | Landman, K. Binder, B. Newgreen, D. |
Citation: | Cellular Automata: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, held in Santorini Island, Greece, 24-27 September, 2012 / G.Ch. Sirakoulis and S. Bandini (eds.), pp.405-414 |
Publisher: | Springer-Verlag |
Publisher Place: | Germany |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Series/Report no.: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 7495 |
ISBN: | 9783642333491 |
ISSN: | 0302-9743 1611-3349 |
Conference Name: | International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (10th : 2012 : Santorini Island, Greece) |
Editor: | Sirakoulis, G.C. Bandini, S. |
Statement of Responsibility: | Kerry A. Landman, Benjamin J. Binder and Donald F. Newgreen |
Abstract: | The enteric nervous system (ENS) in our gastrointestinal tract, nicknamed the “second brain”, is responsible for normal gut function and peristaltic contraction. Embryonic development of the ENS involves the colonization of the gut wall from one end to the other by a population of proliferating neural crest (NC) cells. Failure of these cells to invade the whole gut results in the relatively common, potentially fatal condition known as Hirschsprung disease (HSCR). Cellular automata models provide insight into the colonization process at both the individual cell-level and population-level. Our models generated experimentally testable predictions, which have subsequently been confirmed. The model results imply that HSCR is chiefly a NC cell proliferation defect and not, as previously thought, a NC cell motility defect. These results have important implications for HSCR; namely stochastic effects can determine success or failure of the colonization process for a certain range of NC cell proliferation rates. |
Keywords: | Cellular automata motility proliferation frontal expansion stochastic Hirschsprung disease |
Rights: | © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-33350-7_42 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33350-7_42 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Mathematical Sciences publications |
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