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Reducing phenotype-structured PDE models of cancer evolution to systems of ODEs: a generalised moment dynamics approach

Réduction des modèles EDP d’évolution du cancer structurée en phénotype: une approche généralisée de la dynamique des moments

Résumé

Intratumour phenotypic heterogeneity is nowadays understood to play a critical role in disease progression and treatment failure. Accordingly, there has been increasing interest in the development of mathematical models capable of capturing its role in cancer cell adaptation. This can be systematically achieved by means of models comprising phenotype-structured nonlocal partial differential equations, tracking the evolution of the phenotypic density distribution of the cell population, which may be compared to gene and protein expression distributions obtained experimentally. Nevertheless, given the high analytical and computational cost of solving these models, much is to be gained from reducing them to systems of ordinary differential equations for the moments of the distribution. We propose a generalised method of model-reduction, relying on the use of a moment generating function, Taylor series expansion and truncation closure, to reduce a nonlocal reaction-advection-diffusion equation, with general phenotypic drift and proliferation rate functions, to a system of moment equations up to arbitrary order. Our method extends previous results in the literature, which we address via two examples, by removing any a priori assumption on the shape of the distribution, and provides a flexible framework for mathematical modellers to account for the role of phenotypic heterogeneity in cancer adaptive dynamics, in a simpler mathematical framework.
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hal-04599519 , version 1 (03-06-2024)

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Chiara Villa, Philip K Maini, Alexander P Browning, Adrianne L Jenner, Sara Hamis, et al.. Reducing phenotype-structured PDE models of cancer evolution to systems of ODEs: a generalised moment dynamics approach. 2024. ⟨hal-04599519⟩
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