TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-scale biological and physical modelling of the tumour micro-environment
AU - Kunz, Robert F.
AU - Gaskin, Byron J.
AU - Li, Qunhua
AU - Davanloo-Tajbakhsh, Sam
AU - Dong, Cheng
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was sponsored in part by the National Institutes of Health Grant CA-125707 . The second author was supported by the Walker Assistantship Program at the Penn State Applied Research Laboratory.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/2/2
Y1 - 2015/2/2
N2 - Paced by advances in high performance computing, and algorithms for multi-physics and multi-scale simulation, a number of groups have recently established numerical models of flowing blood systems, where cell-scale interactions are explicitly resolved. To be biologically representative, these models account for some or all of: (1) fluid dynamics of the carrier flow, (2) structural dynamics of the cells and vessel walls, (3) interaction and transport biochemistry, and, (4) methods for scaling to physiologically representative numbers of cells. In this article, our interest is the modelling of the tumour micro-environment. We review the broader area of cell-scale resolving blood flow modelling, while focusing on the particular interactions of tumour cells and white blood cells, known to play an important role in metastasis.
AB - Paced by advances in high performance computing, and algorithms for multi-physics and multi-scale simulation, a number of groups have recently established numerical models of flowing blood systems, where cell-scale interactions are explicitly resolved. To be biologically representative, these models account for some or all of: (1) fluid dynamics of the carrier flow, (2) structural dynamics of the cells and vessel walls, (3) interaction and transport biochemistry, and, (4) methods for scaling to physiologically representative numbers of cells. In this article, our interest is the modelling of the tumour micro-environment. We review the broader area of cell-scale resolving blood flow modelling, while focusing on the particular interactions of tumour cells and white blood cells, known to play an important role in metastasis.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ddmod.2015.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ddmod.2015.03.001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84937243224
SN - 1740-6757
VL - 16
SP - 7
EP - 15
JO - Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models
JF - Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models
ER -