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Multiscale modelling of intestinal crypt organization and carcinogenesis

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Colorectal cancers are the third most common type of cancer. They originate from intestinal crypts, glands that descend from the intestinal lumen into the underlying connective tissue. Normal crypts are thought to exist in a dynamic equilibrium where the rate of cell production at the base of a crypt is matched by that of loss at the top.
Understanding how genetic alterations accumulate and proceed to disrupt this dynamic equilibrium is fundamental to understanding the origins of colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer emerges from the interaction of biological processes that span several spatial scales, from mutations that cause inappropriate intracellular responses to changes at the cell/tissue level, such as uncontrolled proliferation and altered motility and adhesion.
Multiscale mathematical modelling can provide insight into the spatiotemporal organisation of such a complex, highly regulated and dynamic system. Moreover, the aforementioned challenges are inherent to the multiscale modelling of biological tissue more generally. In this review we describe the mathematical approaches that have been
applied to investigate multiscale aspects of crypt behavior, highlighting a number of model predictions that have since been validated experimentally. We also discuss some of the key mathematical and computational challenges associated with the multiscale modelling approach. We conclude by discussing recent efforts to derive coarse-grained descriptions of such models, which may offer one way of reducing the computational cost of simulation by leveraging well-established tools of mathematical analysis to address key problems in multiscale modelling.

Keywords: Off-lattice models; continuum models; multiscale models; coarse-graining;intestine; colorectal cancer.

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Judul Seri

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

No. Panggil

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: World Scientific., 2015

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Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences Vol. 25, No. 13 (2015) 2563–2585

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English

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DOI: 10.1142/S021820

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Tipe Media

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Vol. 25, No. 13 (2015) 2563–2585

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