A hybrid approach to multi-scale modelling of cancer

JM Osborne, A Walter, SK Kershaw… - … of the Royal …, 2010‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this paper, we review multi-scale models of solid tumour growth and discuss a middle-out
framework that tracks individual cells. By focusing on the cellular dynamics of a healthy …

Simulating tissue mechanics with agent-based models: concepts, perspectives and some novel results

P Van Liedekerke, MM Palm, N Jagiella… - Computational particle …, 2015‏ - Springer
In this paper we present an overview of agent-based models that are used to simulate
mechanical and physiological phenomena in cells and tissues, and we discuss underlying …

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 …

Excluded-volume effects in the diffusion of hard spheres

M Bruna, SJ Chapman - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2012‏ - APS
Excluded-volume effects can play an important role in determining transport properties in
diffusion of particles. Here, the diffusion of finite-sized hard-core interacting particles in two …

From a discrete to a continuum model of cell dynamics in one dimension

PJ Murray, CM Edwards, MJ Tindall, PK Maini - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2009‏ - APS
Multiscale modeling is emerging as one of the key challenges in mathematical biology.
However, the recent rapid increase in the number of modeling methodologies being used to …

Fully discrete positivity-preserving and energy-dissipating schemes for aggregation-diffusion equations with a gradient flow structure

R Bailo, JA Carrillo, J Hu - arxiv preprint arxiv:1811.11502, 2018‏ - arxiv.org
We propose fully discrete, implicit-in-time finite-volume schemes for a general family of non-
linear and non-local Fokker-Planck equations with a gradient-flow structure, usually known …

Building macroscale models from microscale probabilistic models: a general probabilistic approach for nonlinear diffusion and multispecies phenomena

CJ Penington, BD Hughes, KA Landman - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2011‏ - APS
A discrete agent-based model on a periodic lattice of arbitrary dimension is considered.
Agents move to nearest-neighbor sites by a motility mechanism accounting for general …

Dynamic cluster field modeling of collective chemotaxis

AS Paspunurwar, A Moure, H Gomez - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Collective migration of eukaryotic cells is often guided by chemotaxis, and is critical in
several biological processes, such as cancer metastasis, wound healing, and …

A continuum approximation to an off-lattice individual-cell based model of cell migration and adhesion

AM Middleton, C Fleck, R Grima - Journal of theoretical biology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Cell–cell adhesion plays a key role in the collective migration of cells and in determining
correlations in the relative cell positions and velocities. Recently, it was demonstrated that off …

[HTML][HTML] A computational model for early cell spreading, migration, and competing taxis

J Betorz, GR Bokil, SM Deshpande, S Kulkarni… - Journal of the …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Cell motility represents one of the most fundamental functions in life such as organ
development or tissue regeneration and diseases such as cancer. Here, we derived a …