Interstitial fluid pressure as an emerging biomarker in solid tumors

H Salavati, C Debbaut, P Pullens, W Ceelen - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2022 - Elsevier
The physical microenvironment of cancer is characterized by elevated stiffness and tissue
pressure, the main component of which is the interstitial fluid pressure (IFP). Elevated IFP is …

Image-guided thermosensitive liposomes for focused ultrasound enhanced co-delivery of carboplatin and SN-38 against triple negative breast cancer in mice

P Cressey, M Amrahli, PW So, W Gedroyc, M Wright… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Triggerable nanocarriers have the potential to significantly improve the therapeutic index of
existing anticancer agents. They allow for highly localised delivery and release of …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities of integrating imaging and mathematical modelling to interrogate biological processes

M Berg, N Holroyd, C Walsh, H West… - … International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Advances in biological imaging have accelerated our understanding of human physiology in
both health and disease. As these advances have developed, the opportunities gained by …

Effect of vascular normalization on drug delivery to different stages of tumor progression: In-silico analysis

FM Kashkooli, M Soltani, M Rezaeian… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Vascular normalization (VN) by anti-angiogenic factors may be efficacious for improving
drug delivery in solid tumors. In the present study, a 3D computational model is employed to …

A mesoscale computational model for microvascular oxygen transfer

L Possenti, A Cicchetti, R Rosati, D Cerroni… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
We address a mathematical model for oxygen transfer in the microcirculation. The model
includes blood flow and hematocrit transport coupled with the interstitial flow, oxygen …

Red blood cell dynamics in extravascular biological tissues modelled as canonical disordered porous media

Q Zhou, K Schirrmann, E Doman, Q Chen… - Interface …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The dynamics of blood flow in the smallest vessels and passages of the human body, where
the cellular character of blood becomes prominent, plays a dominant role in the transport …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal heat transport induced by magnetic nanoparticle delivery in vascularised tumours

T Al Sariri, RD Simitev, R Penta - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
We describe a novel mathematical model for blood flow, delivery of nanoparticles, and heat
transport in vascularised tumour tissue. The model, which is derived via the asymptotic …

Drug transport modeling in solid tumors: A computational exploration of spatial heterogeneity of biophysical properties

H Salavati, P Pullens, W Ceelen, C Debbaut - Computers in Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Inadequate uptake of therapeutic agents by tumor cells is still a major barrier in clinical
cancer therapy. Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool to describe and investigate the …

Modeling hypoxia-induced radiation resistance and the impact of radiation sources

L Possenti, P Vitullo, A Cicchetti, P Zunino… - Computers in Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypoxia contributes significantly to resistance in radiotherapy. Our research rigorously
examines the influence of microvascular morphology on radiotherapy outcome, specifically …

Non-Invasive Assessment of the Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Interstitial Fluid Pressure, Fluid Velocity and Fluid Flow in Cancers In Vivo

MT Islam, S Tang, E Tasciotti, R Righetti - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interstitial fluid pressure, interstitial fluid velocity and related parameters are of great clinical
significance for cancer diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. A limited number of non-invasive …