Modified Gompertz equation for electrotherapy murine tumor growth kinetics: Predictions and new hypotheses

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cabrales, Luis E B ^a,b   Nava, Juan J G ^b   Aguilera, Andrés R ^a   Joa, Javier A G ^a   Ciria, Héctor M C ^a   González, Maraelys M ^a   Salas, Miriam F ^a   Jarque, Manuel V ^c   González, Tamara R ^d   Mateus, Miguel A O ^e   Brooks, Soraida C A ^f   Palencia, Fabiola S ^a   Zamora, Lisset O ^a   Quevedo, María C C ^e   Seringe, Sarah E ^e   Cuitié, Vladimir C ^a   Cabrales, Idelisa B ^a   González, Gustavo S ^g  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Cuba)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c Hospital Infantil del Sur   (Cuba)

^d Servicio de Genética Dirección Municipal de Salud Pública   (Cuba)

^e Hospital Oncologico Docente Provincial Conrado Benitez   (Cuba)

^f Hospital Provincial Docente Saturnino Lora   (Cuba)

^g Instituto Finley   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FIBROSARCOMA; INOCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODIFIED GOMPERTZ EQUATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHASE TRANSITION; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THERAPY EFFECT; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; REMISSION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FIBROSARCOMA; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78549296343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-589     Document Type: Article

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