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This communication addresses why fractals are of interest in biology and medicine and presents two examples of the application of fractals concepts in biomedical research. Firstly, the analysis and simulation of the development of mosaic patterns in liver and adrenal gland of chimaeric animals and secondly the quantification of the complexity of epithelial profiles in the ventral surface of the tongue of rats treated with the carcinogen 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide in drinking water.
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Landini, G. (2002). Pattern Complexity in Organogenesis and Carcinogenesis. In: Losa, G.A., Merlini, D., Nonnenmacher, T.F., Weibel, E.R. (eds) Fractals in Biology and Medicine. Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8119-7_1
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