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Mechanics and chemotaxis in the morphogenesis of vascular networks

A Tosin1, D Ambrosi, L Preziosi

  • 1Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Matematica, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24-10129 Torino, Italy. andrea.tosin@polito.it

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
|July 4, 2006
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