Cellular potts models : multiscale extensions and biological applications / / Marco Scianna and Luigi Preziosi

• Autore: Scianna Marco
• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 519.23
• Soggetto topico: Biology - Mathematical models
• Classificazione: MAT003000MED009000SCI055000
• Altri autori: PreziosiLuigi
• Note generali: "A Chapman & Hall book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Part 1: Basic Cellular Potts Model and Applications; Chapter 1: Basic CPM; Chapter 2: HGF-Induced Cell Scatter; Chapter 3: Mesothelial Invasion of Ovarian Cancer; Part II: Extended Cellular Potts Model and Applications; Chapter 4: Extended Cellular Potts Model; Chapter 5: Wound Healing Assay; Chapter 6: Effect of Calcium-Related Pathways on Single Cell Motility; Chapter 7: Tumor-Derived Vasculogenesis; Chapter 8: Different Morphologies of Tumor Invasion Fronts; Chapter 9: Cell Migration in Extracellular Matrices ; Chapter 10: Cancer Cell Migration in Matrix MicrochannelsPart III: Appendix; Appendix A: Computational Implementation; Appendix B: Glossary; Appendix C: Parameter Values; Appendix D: Color Insert; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: All biological phenomena emerge from an intricate interconnection of multiple processes occurring at different levels of organization: namely, at the molecular, the cellular and the tissue level, see Figure 1. These natural levels can approximately be connected to a microscopic, mesoscopic, and macroscopic scale, respectively. The microscopic scale refers to those processes that occur at the subcellular level, such as DNA synthesis and duplication, gene dynamics, activation of receptors, transduction of chemical signals, diffusion of ions and transport of proteins. The mesoscopic scale, on the other hand, can refer to cell-level phenomena, such as adhesive interactions between cells or between cells and ECM components, cell duplication and death and cell motion. The macroscopic scale finally corresponds to those processes that are typical of multicellular behavior, such as population dynamics, tissue mechanics and organ growth and development. It is evident that research in biology and medicine needs to work in a multiscale fashion. This brings many challenging questions and a complexity that can not be addressed in the classical way, but can take advantage of the increasing collaboration between natural and exact sciences (for more detailed comments the reader is referred to [90, 262]). On the other hand, the recent literature provides evidence of the increasing attention of the mathematical, statistical, computational and physical communities toward biological and biomedical modeling, consequence of the successful results obtained by a multidisciplinary approach to the Life Sciences problems--
• Titolo autorizzato: Cellular potts models
• ISBN: 0-429-09612-7; 1-4665-1479-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828919403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Chapman and Hall/CRC mathematical & computational biology series.