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ArticlePLoS computational biology2023

Physics-based tissue simulator to model multicellular systems: A study of liver regeneration and hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence.

Luciana Melina Luque, Carlos Manuel Carlevaro, Camilo Julio Llamoza Torres, Enrique Lomba

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Luciana Melina LuqueInstituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológicos - CONICET. La Plata, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-1010-3359
Carlos Manuel CarlevaroInstituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológicos - CONICET. La Plata, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0003-3528-7614
Camilo Julio Llamoza TorresHospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca. Murcia, España.ORCID 0000-0001-8072-9413
Enrique LombaInstituto de Química Física Rocasolano - CSIC. Madrid, España.ORCID 0000-0002-4768-2040

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a multiagent-based model that captures the interactions between different types of cells with their microenvironment, and enables the analysis of the emergent global behavior during tissue regeneration and tumor development. Using this model, we are able to reproduce the temporal dynamics of regular healthy cells and cancer cells, as well as the evolution of their three-dimensional spatial distributions. By tuning the system with the characteristics of the individual patients, our model reproduces a variety of spatial patterns of tissue regeneration and tumor growth, resembling those found in clinical imaging or biopsies. In order to calibrate and validate our model we study the process of liver regeneration after surgical hepatectomy in different degrees. In the clinical context, our model is able to predict the recurrence of a hepatocellular carcinoma after a 70% partial hepatectomy. The outcomes of our simulations are in agreement with experimental and clinical observations. By fitting the model parameters to specific patient factors, it might well become a useful platform for hypotheses testing in treatments protocols.

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Carcinoma, HepatocellularLiver NeoplasmsHepatectomyHumansLiver RegenerationModels, BiologicalNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalTumor Microenvironment

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PMID36877741
PMCPMC10019748

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