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. 2017 Jan 3;12(1):e0169434. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169434

Table 1. The system of equations for the Single Glioma Cell Model.

Glioma Cells:tG=δ·(DG)Passive diffusion of G cells-η·(GB)Active transport of G cells+MGNet production of G cells-γFGNecrosis of G cells (1)
Brain Cells:tB=-γFBNecrosis of brain cells (2)
Necrotic Cells:tN=γF(B+G)Conversion of G and B to necrotic cells (3)
Assumptions regarding angiogenesis, hypoxia, mitosis, and necrosis:
Total cell concentration:C=G+B+N (4)
Mitotic Rate:M=τtanh(100(Cltm-C))2 (5)
Rate of necrosis:γF=γ1+GB+0.011-tanh(100(Cltm-C))2 (6)
Necrotic threshold:Cltm=σ[log(1+G)]+Ω, (7)
where σ = 1.0 to simulate angiogenesis, and σ = 0 to simulate anti-angiogenesis.

A description of the parameters and their values/units may be found in Table 2.