On the relationship between cell cycle analysis with ergodic principles and age-structured cell population models . Kuritz, K., Stöhr, D., Pollak, N., & Allgöwer, F. J.\ Theor.\ Biol., 414:91-102, 2017.
On the relationship between cell cycle analysis with ergodic principles and age-structured cell population models  [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Cyclic processes, in particular the cell cycle, are of great importance in cell biology. Continued improvement in cell population analysis methods like fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, CyTOF or single-cell omics made mathematical methods based on ergodic principles a powerful tool in studying these processes. In this paper, we establish the relationship between cell cycle analysis with ergodic principles and age structured population models. To this end, we describe the progression of a single cell through the cell cycle by a stochastic differential equation on a one dimensional manifold in the high dimensional dataspace of cell cycle markers. Given the assumption that the cell population is in a steady state, we derive transformation rules which transform the number density on the manifold to the steady state number density of age structured population models. Our theory facilitates the study of cell cycle dependent processes including local molecular events, cell death and cell division from high dimensional "snapshot" data. Ergodic analysis can in general be applied to every process that exhibits a steady state distribution. By combining ergodic analysis with age structured population models we furthermore provide the theoretic basis for extensions of ergodic principles to distribution that deviate from their steady state.
@ARTICLE{ist:kuritz17a,
  author = {Kuritz, K. and St{\"o}hr, D. and Pollak, N. and Allg{\"o}wer, F.},
  title = {On the relationship between cell cycle analysis with ergodic principles
	and age-structured cell population models },
  journal = {J.\ Theor.\ Biol.},
  year = {2017},
  volume = {414},
  pages = {91-102},
  abstract = {Cyclic processes, in particular the cell cycle, are of great importance
	in cell biology. Continued improvement in cell population analysis
	methods like fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, CyTOF or single-cell
	omics made mathematical methods based on ergodic principles a powerful
	tool in studying these processes. In this paper, we establish the
	relationship between cell cycle analysis with ergodic principles
	and age structured population models. To this end, we describe the
	progression of a single cell through the cell cycle by a stochastic
	differential equation on a one dimensional manifold in the high dimensional
	dataspace of cell cycle markers. Given the assumption that the cell
	population is in a steady state, we derive transformation rules which
	transform the number density on the manifold to the steady state
	number density of age structured population models. Our theory facilitates
	the study of cell cycle dependent processes including local molecular
	events, cell death and cell division from high dimensional "snapshot"
	data. Ergodic analysis can in general be applied to every process
	that exhibits a steady state distribution. By combining ergodic analysis
	with age structured population models we furthermore provide the
	theoretic basis for extensions of ergodic principles to distribution
	that deviate from their steady state.},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.11.024},
  issn = {0022-5193},
  pubtype = {journal},
  url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519316304040}
}

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