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The Use of Chemostats in Microbial Systems Biology
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The Use of Chemostats in Microbial Systems Biology

Published on: October 15, 2013

The effects of cell density and metabolite flux on cellular dynamics

H G Othmer, J A Aldridge

    Journal of Mathematical Biology
    |March 3, 1978
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    cell population dynamicsglycolytic oscillationspositive feedback mechanismsmetabolic regulation

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