A mathematical model coupling tumor growth and angiogenesis

J Xu, G Vilanova, H Gomez - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
We present a mathematical model for vascular tumor growth. We use phase fields to model
cellular growth and reaction-diffusion equations for the dynamics of angiogenic factors and …

The tumor microenvironment as a barrier to cancer nanotherapy

LT Curtis, HB Frieboes - Systems Biology of Tumor Microenvironment …, 2016 - Springer
Although extensive research effort and resources have been dedicated to the development
of nanotherapeutics to treat cancer, few formulations have reached clinical application. A …

Mathematical modelling of a brain tumour initiation and early development: a coupled model of glioblastoma growth, pre-existing vessel co-option, angiogenesis and …

Y Cai, J Wu, Z Li, Q Long - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
We propose a coupled mathematical modelling system to investigate glioblastoma growth in
response to dynamic changes in chemical and haemodynamic microenvironments caused …

Computer simulations of the tumor vasculature: Applications to interstitial fluid flow, drug delivery, and oxygen supply

M Welter, H Rieger - Systems Biology of Tumor Microenvironment …, 2016 - Springer
Tumor vasculature, the blood vessel network supplying a growing tumor with nutrients such
as oxygen or glucose, is in many respects different from the hierarchically organized arterio …

Simulation of angiogenesis in a multiphase tumor growth model

R Santagiuliana, M Ferrari, BA Schrefler - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2016 - Elsevier
The avascular multiphase model for tumor growth, developed by the authors in previous
works, is enhanced to include angiogenesis. The original model comprises the extracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Intraglomerular crosstalk elaborately regulates podocyte injury and repair in diabetic patients: insights from a 3D multiscale modeling study

H Tan, H Yi, W Zhao, JX Ma, Y Zhang, X Zhou - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Podocytes are mainly involved in the regulation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) under
physiological condition. Podocyte depletion is a crucial pathological alteration in diabetic …

Multiscale computational modelling and analysis of cancer invasion

P Ciarletta, T Hillen, H Othmer, L Preziosi… - … Models and Methods for …, 2016 - Springer
Recognised as a key stage in cancer growth and spread in the human body, the cancer cell
invasion process is crucial for metastatic spread and the subsequent development of …

Numerical resolution of a model of tumour growth

AI Muñoz - Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider and solve numerically a mathematical model of tumour growth based on
cancer stem cells (CSC) hypothesis with the aim of gaining some insight into the relation of …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of matrix metalloproteinase on tumour growth and morphology via haptotaxis

N Nargis, R Aldredge - J. Bioengineer. & …, 2016 - faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu
A tumour invasion model has been developed to examine the influence of diffusible matrix
metalloproteinases (MMPs) and the mediated proteolysis of non-diffusible, membrane type …

Microenvironment-mediated modeling of tumor response to vascular-targeting drugs

JL Gevertz - … of Tumor Microenvironment: Quantitative Modeling and …, 2016 - Springer
The tumor-associated microvasculature is one of the key elements of the microenvironment
that helps shape, and is shaped by, tumor progression. Given the important role of the …