EMT/MET plasticity in cancer and Go-or-Grow decisions in quiescence: the two sides of the same coin?

A Akhmetkaliyev, N Alibrahim, D Shafiee, E Tulchinsky - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) and mesenchymal epithelial transition (MET) are
genetic determinants of cellular plasticity. These programs operate in physiological …

Improving cancer treatments via dynamical biophysical models

M Kuznetsov, J Clairambault, V Volpert - Physics of life reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite significant advances in oncological research, cancer nowadays remains one of the
main causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. New treatment techniques, as a rule …

Optimization of antitumor radiotherapy fractionation via mathematical modeling with account of 4 R's of radiobiology

M Kuznetsov, A Kolobov - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
A spatially-distributed continuous mathematical model of solid tumor growth and treatment
by fractionated radiotherapy is presented. The model explicitly accounts for the factors …

Nonlocal reaction–diffusion equations in biomedical applications

M Banerjee, M Kuznetsov, O Udovenko, V Volpert - Acta Biotheoretica, 2022 - Springer
Nonlocal reaction–diffusion equations describe various biological and biomedical
applications. Their mathematical properties are essentially different in comparison with the …

FtH-mediated ROS dysregulation promotes CXCL12/CXCR4 axis activation and EMT-like trans-differentiation in erythroleukemia K562 cells

R Chirillo, I Aversa, A Di Vito, A Salatino… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The cell-microenvironment communication is essential for homing of hematopoietic stem
cells in stromal niches. Recent evidences support the involvement of epithelial-to …

State and parameter estimation of a mathematical carcinoma model under chemotherapeutic treatment

M Siket, G Eigner, DA Drexler, I Rudas, L Kovács - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
One challenging aspect of therapy optimization and application of control algorithms in the
field of tumor growth modeling is the limited number of measurable physiological signals …

Combined influence of nutrient supply level and tissue mechanical properties on benign tumor growth as revealed by mathematical modeling

M Kuznetsov - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
A continuous mathematical model of non-invasive avascular tumor growth in tissue is
presented. The model considers tissue as a biphasic material, comprised of a solid matrix …

Optimization of dose fractionation for radiotherapy of a solid tumor with account of oxygen effect and proliferative heterogeneity

M Kuznetsov, A Kolobov - Mathematics, 2020 - mdpi.com
A spatially-distributed continuous mathematical model of solid tumor growth and treatment
by fractionated radiotherapy is presented. The model explicitly accounts for three time and …

[HTML][HTML] Agent-Based Model for Studying the Effects of Solid Stress and Nutrient Supply on Tumor Growth

M Kuznetsov, A Kolobov - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
An off-lattice agent-based model of tumor growth is presented, which describes a tumor as a
network of proliferating cells, whose dynamics depend on the stress generated by …

Dynamics of an age-structured tumor cell population model with nutrition

C Liu, X Liu, Y Wang, Y Wei - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
A nonlinear age-structured tumor population model, in which the tumor population is divided
into proliferating and quiescent cells is proposed and analyzed. The probability of mitosis in …