Insights from a novel tumor model: Indications for a quantitative link between tumor growth and invasion

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 785-790

  Deisboeck, Thomas S ^a   Mansury, Yuri ^a,d   Guiot, Caterina ^b   Degiorgis, Piero Giorgio ^b   Delsanto, Pier Paolo ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RESEARCH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DENSITY; CELL INVASION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENT; GROWTH CURVE; HYPOTHESIS; MASS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MODEL;

CELL COUNT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 22544465286     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.04.014     Document Type: Article

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