Fitting of random tessellation models to keratin filament networks

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 62-72

  Beil, Michael ^a   Eckel, Stefanie ^b   Fleischer, Frank ^b   Schmidt, Hendrik ^b   Schmidt, Volker ^b   Walther, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Keratin; Random tessellations; Scanning electron microscopy; Stochastic geometry

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

BIOPHYSICS; CANCER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; KERATINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33744550872     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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