Vascular remodelling of an arterio-venous blood vessel network during solid tumour growth

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 405-422

  Welter, M ^a   Bartha, K ^b   Rieger, H ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Blood flow; Cancer; Computer simulation; Tumour growth; Vascular networks

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TUMOR;

ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VOLUME; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG TRANSPORT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SHEAR FLOW; SOLID TUMOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MODEL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

ARTERIES; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OXYGEN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VEINS;

EID: 67650076305     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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