Suveges, Szabolcs and Chamseddine, Ibrahim and Rejniak, Katarzyna A. and Eftimie, Raluca and Trucu, Dumitru (2021) Collective Cell Migration in a Fibrous Environment: A Hybrid Multiscale Modelling Approach. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 7. ISSN 2297-4687
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Abstract
The specific structure of the extracellular matrix (ECM), and in particular the density and orientation of collagen fibres, plays an important role in the evolution of solid cancers. While many experimental studies discussed the role of ECM in individual and collective cell migration, there are still unanswered questions about the impact of nonlocal cell sensing of other cells on the overall shape of tumour aggregation and its migration type. There are also unanswered questions about the migration and spread of tumour that arises at the boundary between different tissues with different collagen fibre orientations. To address these questions, in this study we develop a hybrid multi-scale model that considers the cells as individual entities and ECM as a continuous field. The numerical simulations obtained through this model match experimental observations, confirming that tumour aggregations are not moving if the ECM fibres are distributed randomly, and they only move when the ECM fibres are highly aligned. Moreover, the stationary tumour aggregations can have circular shapes or irregular shapes (with finger-like protrusions), while the moving tumour aggregations have elongate shapes (resembling to clusters, strands or files). We also show that the cell sensing radius impacts tumour shape only when there is a low ratio of fibre to non-fibre ECM components. Finally, we investigate the impact of different ECM fibre orientations corresponding to different tissues, on the overall tumour invasion of these neighbouring tissues.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Euro Archives > Mathematical Science |
Depositing User: | Managing Editor |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2023 04:38 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jan 2024 06:14 |
URI: | http://publish7promo.com/id/eprint/1211 |