Proliferation and death in a binary environment: A stochastic model of cellular ecosystems

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1661-1680

  Chignola, R ^a   Pra, P Dai ^b   Morato, L M ^a   Siri, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cellular Ecosystems; Environmental Niches; Scaling Limits; Stochastic Models; Tumor Spheroids

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; CELL PROLIFERATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33748699122     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-006-9078-8     Document Type: Article

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