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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine

Hybrid models of tumor growth.

Katarzyna A Rejniak, Alexander R A Anderson

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 134 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

134 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Katarzyna A RejniakIntegrated Mathematical Oncology Department, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA. Kasia.rejniak@moffitt.org
Alexander R A Anderson

Funding

TrainingU54CA113007 · NCI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI ESTRADA-RODGERS, LOURDES · 2004 to 2014
$19.2M
The Physi(ologi)cal Microenvironment and its Role in Tumor Invasion and MetastaseU54CA143970 · NCI · H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CTR & RES INST · PI GATENBY, ROBERT A · 2009 to 2014
$9.3M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA113007NCI NIH HHS U54 CA143970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is a complex, multiscale process in which genetic mutations occurring at a subcellular level manifest themselves as functional changes at the cellular and tissue scale. The multiscale nature of cancer requires mathematical modeling approaches that can handle multiple intracellular and extracellular factors acting on different time and space scales. Hybrid models provide a way to integrate both discrete and continuous variables that are used to represent individual cells and concentration or density fields, respectively. Each discrete cell can also be equipped with submodels that drive cell behavior in response to microenvironmental cues. Moreover, the individual cells can interact with one another to form and act as an integrated tissue. Hybrid models form part of a larger class of individual-based models that can naturally connect with tumor cell biology and allow for the integration of multiple interacting variables both intrinsically and extrinsically and are therefore perfectly suited to a systems biology approach to tumor growth.

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Models, BiologicalAnimalsCell Growth ProcessesComputer SimulationNeoplasms

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PMID21064037
PMCPMC3057876

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