Role of constitutive behavior and tumor-host mechanical interactions in the state of stress and growth of solid tumors
dc.contributor.author | Voutouri, C. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Mpekris, F. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Papageorgis, P. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Odysseos, A. D. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Stylianopoulos, T. | en |
dc.creator | Voutouri, C. | en |
dc.creator | Mpekris, F. | en |
dc.creator | Papageorgis, P. | en |
dc.creator | Odysseos, A. D. | en |
dc.creator | Stylianopoulos, T. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-06T12:24:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-06T12:24:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/48928 | |
dc.description.abstract | Mechanical forces play a crucial role in tumor patho-physiology. Compression of cancer cells inhibits their proliferation rate, induces apoptosis and enhances their invasive and metastatic potential. Additionally, compression of intratumor blood vessels reduces the supply of oxygen, nutrients and drugs, affecting tumor progression and treatment. Despite the great importance of the mechanical microenvironment to the pathology of cancer, there are limited studies for the constitutive modeling and the mechanical properties of tumors and on how these parameters affect tumor growth. Also, the contribution of the host tissue to the growth and state of stress of the tumor remains unclear. To this end, we performed unconfined compression experiments in two tumor types and found that the experimental stress-strain response is better fitted to an exponential constitutive equation compared to the widely used neo-Hookean and Blatz-Ko models. Subsequently, we incorporated the constitutive equations along with the corresponding values of the mechanical properties - calculated by the fit - to a biomechanical model of tumor growth. Interestingly, we found that the evolution of stress and the growth rate of the tumor are independent from the selection of the constitutive equation, but depend strongly on the mechanical interactions with the surrounding host tissue. Particularly, model predictions - in agreement with experimental studies - suggest that the stiffness of solid tumors should exceed a critical value compared with that of the surrounding tissue in order to be able to displace the tissue and grow in size. With the use of the model, we estimated this critical value to be on the order of 1.5. Our results suggest that the direct effect of solid stress on tumor growth involves not only the inhibitory effect of stress on cancer cell proliferation and the induction of apoptosis, but also the resistance of the surrounding tissue to tumor expansion. © 2014 Voutouri et al. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.source | PLoS ONE | en |
dc.subject | Models | en |
dc.subject | article | en |
dc.subject | mathematical model | en |
dc.subject | human | en |
dc.subject | Humans | en |
dc.subject | Breast Neoplasms | en |
dc.subject | controlled study | en |
dc.subject | female | en |
dc.subject | Disease Progression | en |
dc.subject | tumor microenvironment | en |
dc.subject | solid tumor | en |
dc.subject | disease course | en |
dc.subject | biological model | en |
dc.subject | cell proliferation | en |
dc.subject | nonhuman | en |
dc.subject | pathology | en |
dc.subject | Stress | en |
dc.subject | tumor growth | en |
dc.subject | Biological | en |
dc.subject | pathophysiology | en |
dc.subject | cancer cell | en |
dc.subject | human cell | en |
dc.subject | apoptosis | en |
dc.subject | animal experiment | en |
dc.subject | animal model | en |
dc.subject | animal tissue | en |
dc.subject | mouse | en |
dc.subject | Colonic Neoplasms | en |
dc.subject | nonlinear system | en |
dc.subject | Tumor | en |
dc.subject | breast tumor | en |
dc.subject | Cell Line | en |
dc.subject | Biomechanical Phenomena | en |
dc.subject | Mechanical | en |
dc.subject | Young modulus | en |
dc.subject | mechanical stress | en |
dc.subject | cell stress | en |
dc.subject | tumor cell line | en |
dc.subject | biomechanics | en |
dc.subject | materials testing | en |
dc.subject | growth rate | en |
dc.subject | colon tumor | en |
dc.subject | Nonlinear Dynamics | en |
dc.subject | viscoelasticity | en |
dc.title | Role of constitutive behavior and tumor-host mechanical interactions in the state of stress and growth of solid tumors | en |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0104717 | |
dc.description.volume | 9 | |
dc.author.faculty | Πολυτεχνική Σχολή / Faculty of Engineering | |
dc.author.department | Τμήμα Μηχανικών Μηχανολογίας και Κατασκευαστικής / Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering | |
dc.type.uhtype | Article | en |
dc.contributor.orcid | Stylianopoulos, T. [0000-0002-3093-1696] | |
dc.gnosis.orcid | 0000-0002-3093-1696 |
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