Simulating therapeutics using multiscale models of the VEGF receptor system in cancer

Modeling Tumor Vasculature: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Level Aspects and Implications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 37-53

  Mac Gabhann, Feilim ^a   Stefanini, Marianne O ^b   Popel, Aleksander S ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0052-3_2     Document Type: Chapter

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