On the holistic approach in cellular and cancer biology: Nonlinearity, complexity, and quasi-determinism of the dynamic cellular network

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 70-78

  Waliszewski, Przemyslaw ^a,c   Molski, Marcin ^b   Konarski, Jerzy ^b  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Complexity; Fractals; Genotype; Nonlinearity; Phenotype; Reductionism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0031840189     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9098(199806)68:2<70::AID-JSO2>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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