Mathematical model of heterogeneous cancer growth with an autocrine signalling pathway

G-M Hu1, C-Y Lee, Y-Y Chen

  • 1Physics Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. pipipshu@gmail.com

Cell Proliferation
|July 13, 2012
PubMed
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