"Fractals" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Patterns (real or mathematical) which look similar at different scales, for example the network of airways in the lung which shows similar branching patterns at progressively higher magnifications. Natural fractals are self-similar across a finite range of scales while mathematical fractals are the same across an infinite range. Many natural, including biological, structures are fractal (or fractal-like). Fractals are related to "chaos" (see NONLINEAR DYNAMICS) in that chaotic processes can produce fractal structures in nature, and appropriate representations of chaotic processes usually reveal self-similarity over time.
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D017709
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.599.125 G17.290
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fractals" by people in Profiles.
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Fractal nature of human gastrointestinal system: Exploring a new era. World J Gastroenterol. 2023 Jul 07; 29(25):4036-4052.
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Relationship Between Retinal Fractal Dimension and Nonperfusion in Diabetic Retinopathy on Ultrawide-Field Fluorescein Angiography. Am J Ophthalmol. 2020 01; 209:99-106.
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Computer-aided assessment of the extra-cellular matrix during pancreatic carcinogenesis: a pilot study. J Transl Med. 2019 02 28; 17(1):61.
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Fractal regulation and incident Alzheimer's disease in elderly individuals. Alzheimers Dement. 2018 09; 14(9):1114-1125.
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Chromatin extrusion explains key features of loop and domain formation in wild-type and engineered genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Nov 24; 112(47):E6456-65.
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Experimental control of scaling behavior: what is not fractal? Exp Brain Res. 2015 Oct; 233(10):2813-21.
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Fractal-like kinetics of intracellular enzymatic reactions: a chemical framework of endotoxin tolerance and a possible non-specific contribution of macromolecular crowding to cross-tolerance. Theor Biol Med Model. 2013 Sep 14; 10:55.
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Multifractal and lacunarity analysis of microvascular morphology and remodeling. Microcirculation. 2011 Feb; 18(2):136-51.
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Effects of interfractional motion and anatomic changes on proton therapy dose distribution in lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2008 Dec 01; 72(5):1385-95.
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Quantitative evaluation of age-related white matter microstructural changes on MRI by multifractal analysis. J Neurol Sci. 2004 Oct 15; 225(1-2):33-7.