In epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), cells organized into sheets break away and become motile mesenchymal cells. EMT plays a crucial role in wound healing, embryonic development, and cancer metastasis. Intracellular signaling in response to mechanical, topographic, or chemical stimuli can promote EMT.
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May 2018
Comprehending complex behavior of flow within a graph is of interest to clinicians and mathematicians alike. In this study we examine admission, discharge, and transfer data of patients within a hospital system, and process the importance of nodes through several graph metrics. One common metric, which measures population densities through a continuous time Markov process, will be compared against centrality measures, a technique more often used in social media studies.
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