Bifurcation analysis for a nonlinear system of integro-differential equations modelling tumor-immune cells competition

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 39-44

  Bellomo, N ^a   Firmani, B ^b   Guerri, L ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Immune competition; Integro differential equations; Nonlinearity; Tumor cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001794315     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(98)00146-3     Document Type: Article

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