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Multiscale dynamics of biological cells with chemotactic interactions: from a discrete stochastic model to a

Mark Alber1, Nan Chen, Tilmann Glimm

  • 1Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46656, USA. malber@nd.edu

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|June 29, 2006
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Keywords:
cellular Potts modelKeller-Segel modelmultiscale modelingchemotaxisbiological cell dynamics

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