Cancer cell population growth kinetics at low densities deviate from the exponential growth model and suggest an Allee effect
K. E. Johnson, G. Howard, W. Mo, M. K. Strasser, E. A. B. F. Lima, S. Huang, A. Brock
This paper investigates cancer cell growth at low densities and finds that an Allee effect model better describes growth kinetics than exponential growth, suggesting cooperative behavior among cells.
bioRxiv · Mar 28, 2019Cancer Biology