The role of stochasticity in a model of retinal angiogenesis

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 729-747

  Capasso, Vincenzo ^a   Morale, Daniela ^a   Facchetti, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; complex systems; hybrid models; stochastic differential equations; stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CAPILLARY NETWORK; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRIC DENSITY; GEOMETRIC PATTERNS; HYBRID MODEL; LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS; LOCAL MEAN; MACRO SCALE; MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS; MEAN FIELD; MESOSCALE; MICRO-SCALES; MODEL REDUCTION; MULTI-SCALE STRUCTURES; NATURAL PROCESS; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTICITY; STRONG COUPLING; VASCULARIZATION; VASCULARIZATION PROCESS;

BIOMATERIALS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84870198999     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: 14643634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/hxs050     Document Type: Article

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