A stochastic model featuring acid induced gaps during tumor progression.

  • In this paper we propose a phenomenological model for the formation of an interstitial gap between the tumor and the stroma. The gap is mainly filled with acid produced by the progressing edge of the tumor front. Our setting extends existing models for acid-induced tumor invasion models to incorporate several features of local invasion like formation of gaps, spikes, buds, islands, and cavities. These behaviors are obtained mainly due to the random dynamics at the intracellular level, the go-or-grow-or-recede dynamics on the population scale, together with the nonlinear coupling between the microscopic (intracellular) and macroscopic (population) levels. The wellposedness of the model is proved using the semigroup technique and 1D and 2D numerical simulations are performed to illustrate model predictions and draw conclusions based on the observed behavior.

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Author:Sandesh Athni Hiremath, Christina Surulescu
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-40622
Document Type:Preprint
Language of publication:English
Date of Publication (online):2015/04/29
Year of first Publication:2015
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2015/04/29
Page Number:55
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Mathematik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 510 Mathematik
Licence (German):Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vom 13.02.2015