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Autocrine signaling can explain the emergence of Allee effects in cancer cell populations
3 Mar 2022
Abstract excerpt
In many human cancers, the rate of cell growth depends crucially on the size of the tumor cell population. Low, zero, or negative growth at low population densities is known as the Allee effect; this effect has been studied extensively in ecology, but so far lacks a good explanation in the cancer setting. Here, we formulate and analyze an individual-based model of cancer, in which cell division rates are...
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