Cell surface as a fractal: Normal and cancerous cervical cells demonstrate different fractal behavior of surface adhesion maps at the nanoscale

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Dokukin, M E ^a   Guz, N V ^a   Gaikwad, R M ^a   Woodworth, C D ^a   Sokolov, I ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCEROUS CELLS; CELL SURFACES; CERVICAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FRACTAL BEHAVIORS; FRACTAL DIMENSIONALITY; MULTI FRACTALS; NANO SCALE; SURFACE ADHESION;

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL MEMBRANES; FRACTALS;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 79961054802     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.028101     Document Type: Article

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