ArticleComputer methods and programs in biomedicine2023
Modeling critical interaction for metastasis between circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and platelets adhered to the capillary wall.
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- Current Advances of Molecular Biomarkers and Liquid Biopsies Techniques in Ovarian Cancer.Cancer medicine · 2026Review
- A parametric study of motion and attachment to capillary walls of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) interacting with non-activated and activated platelets.Computer methods and programs in biomedicine · 2025Article
- Advances and potentials in platelet-circulating tumor cell crosstalk.American journal of cancer research · 2025Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectiveWe used a 2D fluid-solid interaction (FSI) model to investigate the critical conditions for the arrest of the CTCs traveling through the narrowed capillary with a platelet attached to the capillary wall. This computational model allows us to determine the deformations and the progression of the passage of the CTC through different types of microvessels with platelet included.
methodsThe modeling process is obtained using the strong coupling approach following the remeshing procedure. Also, the 1D FE rope element for simulating active ligand-receptor bonds is implemented in our computational tool (described below).
resultsA relationship between the CTCs properties (size and stiffness), the platelet size and stiffness, and the ligand-receptor interaction intensity, on one side, and the time in contact between the CTCs and platelet and conditions for the cell arrest, on the other side, are determined. The model is further validated in vitro by using a microfluidic device with metastatic breast tumor cells.
conclusionsThe computational framework that is presented, with accompanying results, can be used as a powerful tool to study biomechanical conditions for CTCs arrest in interaction with platelets, giving a prognosis of disease progression.
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