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ArticleInternational journal of biological sciences2011

Modeling the effects of a simple immune system and immunodeficiency on the dynamics of conjointly growing tumor and normal cells.

Mitra Shojania Feizabadi, Tarynn M Witten

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Article in International journal of biological sciences, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Dynamics of Breast Cancer under Different Rates of Chemoradiotherapy.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2019
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  3. Modeling drug resistance in a conjoint normal-tumor setting.Theoretical biology & medical modelling · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mitra Shojania FeizabadiPhysics Department, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079, USA. shojanmi@shu.edu
Tarynn M Witten
Seton Hall University · USVirginia Commonwealth University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a theoretical contribution towards the understanding of the complex behavior of conjoint tumor-normal cell growth under the influence of immuno-chemotherapeutic agents under simple immune system response. In particular, we consider a core model for the interaction of tumor cells with the surrounding normal cells. We then add the effects of a simple immune system, and both immune-suppression factors and immuno-chemotherapeutic agents as well. Through a series of numerical simulations, we illustrate that the interdependency of tumor-normal cells, together with choice of drug and the nature of the immunodeficiency, leads to a variety of interesting patterns in the evolution of both the tumor and the normal cell populations.

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Cell Growth ProcessesModels, BiologicalComputer SimulationImmunotherapyNeoplasmsAgingchemotherapyImmune systemImmunodeficiencyImmunotherapynormal cell dynamicstumor cell dynamicstumor-normal cell interactions

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PMID21647303
PMCPMC3107489
OpenAlexW2133172722

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