Reaction-diffusion approach to modeling of the spread of early tumors along linear or tubular structures

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 375-387

  Marciniak Czochra, Anna ^a   Kimmel, Marek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH); Cancer modeling; Pattern formation; Reaction diffusion equations

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR;

CANCER; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; GROWTH; MODELING; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TUMOR;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER INVASION; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIFFUSION; LUNG ADENOMA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METASTASIS; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATION; STEADY STATE; TIME; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS;

EID: 33845907126     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.08.021     Document Type: Article

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