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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Bull Math Biol. 2013 Jan 5;75(8):1304–1350. doi: 10.1007/s11538-012-9787-0

Table 5.

Additional parameters in the invasion model

Description Value References

Diffusion coefficients
Dt1 Tumor-associated proteinase (tissue) 1.67 × 10−12 cm2/s TW
Dt2 Tumor-associated proteinase (duct) 3.67 × 10−12 cm2/s TW
DS1 Fibroblast-secreted proteinase (tissue) 1.02 × 10−7 cm2/s (Saffarian et al. 2004; Sherratt and Murray 1990; Kim etal. 2009), TW
Ds2 Fibroblast-secreted proteinase (duct) 1.08 × 10−8 cm2/s (Saffarian et al. 2004; Sherratt and Murray 1990), TW

Degradation/Decay rates

λ1 ECM degradation rate by TAP 1.0 × 103cm 3g−1 s−1 TW
λ2 ECM remodeling 1.67 × 10−5 s−1 (Kim et al. 2009), TW
ρK Carrying capacity of ECM = ρ* TW
λ3 Production rate of tumor cell-associated proteinase 2.32 × 10 −11 g cm−3 s−1 (Mercapide et al. 2003 ; Kim et al. 2009), TW
λ4 Decay rate of tumor cell associated proteinase 1.67 × 10 −5 s–1 (Kim et al. 2009), TW
λ5 Fibroblast-secreted proteinase production rate 3.15 × 10−9 gcm−3 s−1 TW
λ6 Decay rate of fibroblast-secreted proteinase 1.67 × 10−5 s−1 (Kim et al. 2009), TW

Reference values
ρ* ECM 1.0 × 10−3 g/cm3 (Kaufman et al. 2005)
Pt* Tumor-associated proteinase 1.0 × 10−7 g/cm3 (Annabi et al. 2005)
PS* Fibroblast-secreted proteinase (FSP) 1.0 × 10−7 g/cm3 TW
PS*,th Threshold for activation of TECs by FSP 2.0 × 10−8 g/cm3 TW