Spatiotemporal dynamics of the biological interface between cancer and the microenvironment: A fractal anomalous diffusion model with microenvironment plasticity

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tsai, Feng Chou ^a   Wang, Mei Chuan ^b   Lo, Jeng Fan ^c   Chou, Chih Ming ^d   Lin, Yi Lu ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Cancer; Integrins; Metastasis; P lya constant; Probability; Random walk; Tumor self seeding

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ALPHA INTEGRIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEIOMYOMA; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUSCLE TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UTERUS CANCER; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; FRACTALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INTEGRIN ALPHA CHAINS; LEIOMYOMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE NEOPLASMS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84864809189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4682-9-36     Document Type: Article

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