A hybrid approach to multi-scale modelling of cancer

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1930, 2010, Pages 5013-5028

  Osborne, J M ^a   Walter, A ^a   Kershaw, S K ^a   Mirams, G R ^b   Fletcher, A G ^a   Pathmanathan, P ^a   Gavaghan, D ^a   Jensen, O E ^c   Maini, P K ^a   Byrne, H M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cell centre model; Cell vertex model; Colorectal cancer; Continuum model; Multi scale model

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION;

CANCER; CANCEROUS CELLS; CELLULAR DYNAMICS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTINUUM MODEL; HYBRID APPROACH; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; MULTI-SCALE MODELLING; MULTISCALE MODELS; MUTANT CELLS; THERAPEUTIC TARGETS; TOPDOWN; TUMOUR GROWTH;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITHELIUM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITHELIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 78649356768     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0173     Document Type: Review

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