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Stochastic models in cell kinetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Abstract

We discuss the role of stochastic processes in modelling the life-cycle of a biological cell and the growth of cell populations. Results for multiphase age-dependent branching processes have proved invaluable for the interpretation of many of the basic experimental studies of the life-cycle. Moreover problems from cell kinetics, in particular those related to diurnal rhythm in cell-growth, have stimulated research into ‘periodic' renewal theory, and the asymptotic behaviour of populations of cells with periodic death rate.

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Part 3 - Stochastic Models in Biology and Field Trials
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1988 

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