Combining cellular automata and lattice Boltzmann method to model multiscale avascular tumor growth coupled with nutrient diffusion and immune competition

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 376, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 55-68

  Alemani, Davide ^a   Pappalardo, Francesco ^b   Pennisi, Marzio ^b   Motta, Santo ^b   Brusic, Vladimir ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Computational models; Dosage optimization; Hybrid models; Immune system; Lattice Boltzmann

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84856532770     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: 18727905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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