Fractals, chaos, and cancer: Do they coincide?

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 601-607

  Sedivy, Roland ^a   Mader, Robert M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CA 15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYCLINE; DNA; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MATURATION PROMOTING FACTOR; ONCOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN P53; RAS PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; THREONINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TYROSINE; UVOMORULIN;

ALGORITHM; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0031469640     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07357909709047603     Document Type: Review

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