Geometrical models of the renewal of the epidermis;Un etat des lieux des modeles geometriques du renouvellement de l'epiderme

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Serie III

Volumn 323, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-56

  Dubertret, Benoît ^a   Rivier, Nicolas ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DYNFLUID LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Epidermis; Froths; Interface (tension); Statistics; Structure; Topology

Indexed keywords

BASAL CELL; EPIDERMIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICS; NORMAL HUMAN; REGENERATION; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

EID: 0034093749     PISSN: 07644469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0764-4469(00)00106-2     Document Type: Article

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