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A quantitative cellular automaton model of multicellular spheroid tumour growth

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We report numerical results from a two dimensional Cellular Automaton (CA) model describing the dynamics of the cultivated multicellular spheroid obtained from EMT6/Ro (mammary carcinoma) cell line. Significantly, the CA model relaxes the often assumed one-to-one correspondence between cells and CA sites so as to correctly model the peripheral mitotic boundary region, and to enable the study of necrosis in large avascular tumours. By full calibration and scaling to available experimental data, the model produces with good accuracy experimentally comparable data on a range of bulk tumour kinetics and necrosis measures. Our main finding is that the metabolic production of H ions is not sufficient to cause central necrosis prior to the sub-viable nutrient-deficient stage of tumour development being reached. Thus, the model suggests that an additional process is required to explain the experimentally observable onset of necrosis prior to the non-viable nutrient-deficient point being reached.
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hal-00554577 , version 1 (11-01-2011)

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Monika Joanna Piotrowska, Simon D. Angus. A quantitative cellular automaton model of multicellular spheroid tumour growth. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2009, 258 (2), pp.165. ⟨10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.02.008⟩. ⟨hal-00554577⟩

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