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ArticleScientific reports2013

Metabolic scaling in solid tumours.

E Milotti, V Vyshemirsky, M Sega, S Stella, R Chignola

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Article in Scientific reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Modeling of the metabolic energy dissipation for restricted tumor growth.Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes · 2017
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  5. Allometric scaling in-vitro.Scientific reports · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

E MilottiDepartment of Physics, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy. milotti@units.it
V Vyshemirsky
M Sega
S Stella
R Chignola
University of Verona · ITIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare · ITUniversity of Strathclyde · GBUniversity of Trieste · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumour metabolism is an outstanding topic of cancer research, as it determines the growth rate and the global activity of tumours. Recently, by combining the diffusion of oxygen, nutrients, and metabolites in the extracellular environment, and the internal motions that mix live and dead cells, we derived a growth law of solid tumours which is linked to parameters at the cellular level. Here we use this growth law to obtain a metabolic scaling law for solid tumours, which is obeyed by tumours of different histotypes both in vitro and in vivo, and we display its relation with the fractal dimension of the distribution of live cells in the tumour mass. The scaling behaviour is related to measurable parameters, with potential applications in the clinical practice.

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Models, BiologicalAlgorithmsCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationGlucoseHumansNeoplasmsSpheroids, CellularTumor Cells, CulturedGlucose

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PMID23727729
PMCPMC3670262
OpenAlexW2102621880

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