On the bifurcation of blood vessels - Wilhelm Roux's Doctoral Thesis (Jena 1878) - A seminal work for biophysical modelling in developmental biology

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-36

  Kurz, Haymo ^a   Sandau, Konrad ^b   Christ, Bodo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; MODEL; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0031039369     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(97)80132-X     Document Type: Article

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