Publication Date

2023

Journal or Book Title

Journal of Personalized Medicine

Abstract

The interactions between cells and molecules in the tumor microenvironment can give insight into the initiation and progression of tumors and their optimal treatment options. In this paper, we developed an ordinary differential equation (ODE) mathematical model of the interaction network of key players in the clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) microenvironment. We then performed a global gradient-based sensitivity analysis to investigate the effects of the most sensitive parameters of the model on the number of cancer cells. The results indicate that parameters related to IL-6 have high a impact on cancer cell growth, such that decreasing the level of IL-6 can remarkably slow the tumor’s growth.

ORCID

Sofia: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1279-1626, Mirzaei: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0971-0514, Shahriyari: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6234-8449

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12101681

Volume

12

Special Issue

Data-Driven Modeling for Chronic Diseases

Issue

10

License

UMass Amherst Open Access Policy

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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