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We present a mathematical study of the emergence of phenotypic heterogeneity in vascularised tumours. Our study is based on formal asymptotic analysis and numerical simulations of a system of non-local parabolic equations that describes the…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2021-03-26 Chiara Villa , Mark A. J. Chaplain , Tommaso Lorenzi

Complex tumor-host interactions can significantly affect the growth dynamics and morphologies of progressing neoplasms. The growth of a confined solid tumor induces mechanical pressure and deformation of the surrounding microenvironment,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-01-05 Yang Jiao , Sal Torquato

By embedding inert tracer particles (TPs) in a growing multicellular spheroid the local stresses on the cancer cells (CCs) can be measured. In order for this technique to be effective the unknown effect of the dynamics of the TPs on the CCs…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Himadri S. Samanta , Sumit Sinha , D. Thirumalai

In recent work it was clarified that amorphous solids under strain control do not possess nonlinear elastic theory in the sense that the shear modulus exists but nonlinear moduli exhibit sample to sample fluctuations that grow without bound…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-29 Vladimir Dailidonis , Valery Ilyin , Itamar Procaccia , Carmel A. B. Z. Shor

One of the central problems in animal and plant developmental biology is deciphering how chemical and mechanical signals interact within a tissue to produce organs of defined size, shape and function. Cell walls in plants impose a unique…

The existence of a crumpled phase for self-avoiding elastic surfaces was postulated more than three decades ago using simple Flory-like scaling arguments. Despite much effort, its stability in a microscopic environment has been the subject…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-26 M. C. Gandikota , Shibananda Das , A. Cacciuto

In this paper, we study a tumor growth model with nutrients. The contact inhibition for the tumor cells, presented in the model, results in the evolution of a congested tumor patch. We study the regularity of the tumor patch as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Inwon Kim , Jona Lelmi

The surface tension of living cells and tissues originates from the generation of nonequilibrium active stresses within the cell cytoskeleton. Here, using laser ablation, we generate gradients in the surface tension of cellular aggregates…

In this work we study a tissue growth model with applications to tumour growth. The model is based on that of Perthame, Quir\'os, and V\'azquez proposed in 2014 but incorporates the advective effects caused, for instance, by the presence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Noemi David , Markus Schmidtchen

This paper studies an evolving bulk--surface finite element method for a model of tissue growth, which is a modification of the model of Eyles, King and Styles (2019). The model couples a Poisson equation on the domain with a forced mean…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Dominik Edelmann , Balázs Kovács , Christian Lubich

During embryonic morphogenesis, tissues undergo dramatic deformations in order to form functional organs. Similarly, in adult animals, living cells and tissues are continually subjected to forces and deformations. Therefore, the success of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-06 Michael J. Hertaeg , Suzanne M. Fielding , Dapeng Bi

In this paper we present a method for estimating unknown parameters that appear on an avascular, spheric tumour growth model. The model for the tumour is based on nutrient driven growth of a continuum of live cells, whose birth and death…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 D. A. Knopoff , D. R. Fernández , G. A. Torres , C. V. Turner

In this paper we study a free boundary problem for the growth of multi-layer tumors in necrotic phase. The tumor region is strip-like and divided into necrotic region and proliferating region with two free boundaries. The upper free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Junde Wu

Drug resistance and metastasis - the major complications in cancer - both entail adaptation of cancer cells to stress, whether a drug or a lethal new environment. Intriguingly, these adaptive processes share similar features that cannot be…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-28 Aseel Shomar , Omri Barak , Naama Brenner

Mathematical and computational modelling in oncology has played an increasingly important role in not only understanding the impact of various approaches to treatment on tumour growth, but in optimizing dosing regimens and aiding the…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-03 Molly Brennan , Andrew L. Krause , Edgardo Villar-Sepúlveda , Christopher B. Prior

The problem of surface effects at a fluid/force field boundary is investigated. A classical simple fluid with a locally introduced field simulating a solid is considered. For the case of a hard-core field, rigid, exponential, realistic, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-08 V. M. Zaskulnikov

We report on a simple model of spatial extend anti-tumor system with a fluctuation in growth rate, which can undergo a nonequilibrium phase transition. Three states as excited, sub-excited and non-excited states of a tumor are defined to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei-Rong Zhong , Yuan-Zhi Shao , Zhen-Hui He

This paper investigates cells proliferation dynamics in small tumor cell aggregates using an individual based model (IBM). The simulation model is designed to study the morphology of the cell population and of the cell lineages as well as…

A theoretical model for stratified epithelium is presented. The viscoelastic properties of the tissue is assumed to be dependent on the spatial distribution of proliferative and differentiated cells. Based on this assumption, a hydrodynamic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Wei-Ting Yeh , Hsuan-Yi Chen

While the physics of disordered packing in non-growing systems is well understood, unexplored phenomena can emerge when packing takes place in growing domains. We study the arrangements of pigment cells (chromatophores) on squid skin as a…