The role of cellular reactive oxygen species in cancer chemotherapy

H Yang, RM Villani, H Wang, MJ Simpson… - Journal of experimental …, 2018 - Springer
Most chemotherapeutics elevate intracellular levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and
many can alter redox-homeostasis of cancer cells. It is widely accepted that the anticancer …

Extracellular vesicles from human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells promote cardiac infarct healing through reducing cardiomyocyte death …

Q Wu, J Wang, WLW Tan, Y Jiang, S Wang, Q Li… - Cell Death & …, 2020 - nature.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs)-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells (CVPCs) are
a promising source for myocardial repair, while the mechanisms remain largely unknown …

Modelling collective cell migration: neural crest as a model paradigm

R Giniūnaitė, RE Baker, PM Kulesa… - Journal of Mathematical …, 2020 - Springer
A huge variety of mathematical models have been used to investigate collective cell
migration. The aim of this brief review is twofold: to present a number of modelling …

Bayesian synthetic likelihood

LF Price, CC Drovandi, A Lee… - Journal of Computational …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Having the ability to work with complex models can be highly beneficial. However, complex
models often have intractable likelihoods, so methods that involve evaluation of the …

Prion-like spreading of Alzheimer's disease within the brain's connectome

S Fornari, A Schäfer, M Jucker… - Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The prion hypothesis states that misfolded proteins can act as infectious agents that
template the misfolding and aggregation of healthy proteins to transmit a disease. Increasing …

In vitro cell migration quantification method for scratch assays

AVP Bobadilla, J Arévalo, E Sarró… - Journal of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The scratch assay is an in vitro technique used to assess the contribution of molecular and
cellular mechanisms to cell migration. The assay can also be used to evaluate therapeutic …

Practical parameter identifiability for spatio-temporal models of cell invasion

MJ Simpson, RE Baker… - Journal of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We examine the practical identifiability of parameters in a spatio-temporal reaction–diffusion
model of a scratch assay. Experimental data involve fluorescent cell cycle labels, providing …

Revisiting the Fisher–Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov equation to interpret the spreading–extinction dichotomy

M El-Hachem, SW McCue, W **… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Fisher–Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov model, also known as the Fisher–KPP model,
supports travelling wave solutions that are successfully used to model numerous invasive …

Size-dependent patterns of cell proliferation and migration in freely-expanding epithelia

MA Heinrich, R Alert, JM LaChance, TJ Zajdel… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The coordination of cell proliferation and migration in growing tissues is crucial in
development and regeneration but remains poorly understood. Here, we find that, while …

Estimating cell diffusivity and cell proliferation rate by interpreting IncuCyte ZOOM™ assay data using the Fisher-Kolmogorov model

ST Johnston, ET Shah, LK Chopin… - BMC systems …, 2015 - Springer
Background Standard methods for quantifying IncuCyte ZOOM™ assays involve
measurements that quantify how rapidly the initially-vacant area becomes re-colonised with …