Nuclear patterns of human breast cancer cells during apoptosis: Characterisation by fractal dimension and co-occurrence matrix statistics

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 322, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 257-267

  Losa, Gabriele A ^a,b   Castelli, Christian ^a,c  

^a Inst for Sci Interdisc Studies   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c OCL Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Early late apoptosis; Fractal dimension; Grey level co occurrence matrix (GLCM) analysis; Human breast cancer cells; Nuclear eu hetero chromatin; Surface gangliosides

Indexed keywords

CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM IONOPHORE; GANGLIOSIDE; GLYCOLIPID;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CELL DEATH; CELL SURFACE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCIMYCIN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IONOPHORES; MATHEMATICS; SPHINGOLIPIDS;

EID: 27944467946     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-005-0030-2     Document Type: Article

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