Systems Biology of Tumor Microenvironment : Quantitative Modeling and Simulations - Rejniak, Katarzyna A.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Image Analysis of the Tumor Microenvironment -- Hypoxia in Gliomas: Opening Therapeutical Opportunities Using a Mathematical-Based Approach -- Computer Simulations of the Tumor Vasculature: Applications to Interstitial Fluid Flow, Drug Delivery, and Oxygen -- Cell-ECM Interactions in Tumor Invasion -- Circulating Tumor Cells: When Solid tumor Meets Fluid Microenvironment -- Modeling Proteolytically Driven Tumor Lymphangiogenesis -- Positive feedback loops between inflammatory, bone and cancer cells during metastatic niche construction -- Microenvironmental Niches and Sanctuaries: a Route to Acquired Resistance -- The Tumor Microenvironment as a Barrier to Cancer Nanotherapy -- Microenvironment-Mediated Modeling of Tumor Response to Vascular-Targeting Drugs -- Optimizing Chemotherapeutic Anti-Cancer Treatment and the Tumor Microenvironment: An Analysis of Mathematical Models -- Progress towards computational 3-D multicellular systems biology -- Index.
Keywords: Cancer research; Biomathematics; Biophysics; Biological physics; Cancer Research; Mathematical and Computational Biology; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics