Complex Multicellular Systems and Immune Competition: New Paradigms Looking for a Mathematical Theory

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 81, Issue , 2008, Pages 485-502

  Bellomo, Nicola ^a   Forni, Guido ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; GENETICS; MATHEMATICS; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 36048964200     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(07)81017-9     Document Type: Review

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