A Growth Model for Multicellular Tumor Spheroids
Biological Physics
2009-11-10 v1 q-bio
Abstract
Most organisms grow according to simple laws, which in principle can be derived from energy conservation and scaling arguments, critically dependent on the relation between the metabolic rate B of energy flow and the organism mass m. Although this relation is generally recognized to be of the form B(m) = mp, the specific value of the exponent p is the object of an ongoing debate, with many mechanisms being postulated to support different predictions. We propose that multicellular tumor spheroids provide an ideal experimental model system for testing these allometric growth theories, especially under controlled conditions of malnourishment and applied mechanical stress.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0307136,
title = {A Growth Model for Multicellular Tumor Spheroids},
author = {Pier Paolo Delsanto and Caterina Guiot and Piero Giorgio Degiorgis and Carlos A. Condat and Yuri Mansury and Thomas S. Deisboeck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0307136},
year = {2009}
}