Quantitation and Gompertzian analysis of tumor growth

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 46, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 303-312

  Rygaard, Kåre ^a   Spang Thomsen, Mogens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Experimental therapy; Gompertz function; Immune deficient animals; Nude mice; Radiotherapy; Tumor growth; Xenografts

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GROWTH CURVE; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0031457714     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005906900231     Document Type: Review

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