1. How to express tumours using membrane systems.
- Author
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Gutiérrez-Naranjo, Miguel A., Pérez-Jiménez, Mario J., Riscos-Núñez, Agustín, and Romero-Campero, Francisco J.
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TUMOR diagnosis , *ARTIFICIAL membranes , *CANCER cells , *CYSTS (Pathology) , *CELLULAR pathology - Abstract
In this paper we discuss the potential usefulness of membrane systems as tools for modelling tumours. The approach is followed both from a macroscopic and a microscopic point of view. In the first case, one considers the tumour as a growing mass of cells, focusing on its external shape. In the second case, one descends to the microscopic level, studying molecular signalling pathways that are crucial to determine if a cell is cancerous or not. In each of these approaches we work with appropriate variants of membrane systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2007