Collective behavior in cancer cell populations

BioEssays

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-197

  Deisboeck, Thomas S ^a   Couzin, Iain D ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosystems; Cancer; Collective behavior

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; PHEROMONE; PODOPLANIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RESEARCH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POPULATION; CYTOSKELETON; DECISION MAKING; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; POPULATION DENSITY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 62849112168     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200800084     Document Type: Article

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