"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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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fractals" by people in Profiles.
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High-Throughput Tissue Bioenergetics Analysis Reveals Identical Metabolic Allometric Scaling for Teleost Hearts and Whole Organisms. PLoS One. 2015; 10(9):e0137710.
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Retinal vascular fractal dimension and risk of early diabetic retinopathy: A prospective study of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2009 Nov; 32(11):2081-3.
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Quantitative assessment of early diabetic retinopathy using fractal analysis. Diabetes Care. 2009 Jan; 32(1):106-10.
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Fractal and image analysis of morphological changes in the actin cytoskeleton of neonatal cardiac fibroblasts in response to mechanical stretch. Microsc Microanal. 2007 Apr; 13(2):133-43.
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Anomalous sylvian fissure morphology in Williams syndrome. Neuroimage. 2006 Oct 15; 33(1):39-45.