The Mechanics of Metastasis: Insights from a Computational Model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Brodland, G Wayne ^a   Veldhuis, Jim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CELL SPREADING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSEMINATED CANCER; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METASTASIS; PRIMARY TUMOR; PROCESS MODEL; SURFACE TENSION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MOVEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84867019697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044281     Document Type: Article

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