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. 2021 Aug 6;10(8):2009. doi: 10.3390/cells10082009

Table 2.

Chemotherapy Parameters. Names, units, descriptions, values, and sources of chemotherapy-related parameters used in the model.

Parameter Unit Description Value Source
f none Initial fraction of cells in vulnerable
phase of the cell cycle
0.5 [84]
a day Cell cycle time 0.6667 [84]
T day Duration of drug exposure
τ day min(T,fa) [84]
β1 mg/L1 methotrexate efficacy coefficient 2.4780 [84]
β2 mg/L1 doxorubicin efficacy coefficient 1.8328 [84]
β3 mg/L1 cisplatin efficacy coefficient 0.1467 [84]
KC day1 Rate of chemo-induced tumor death 0.9 [89,102]
KMN day1 Rate of chemo-induced death
of naive macrophages
0.6 [102]
KM day1 Rate of chemo-induced death
of macrophages
0.6 [102]
KTN day1 Rate of chemo-induced death
of naive T-cells
0.6 [102]
KTh day1 Rate of chemo-induced death
of helper T-cells
0.6 [102]
KTr day1 Rate of chemo-induced death
of regulatory T-cells
0.6 [102]
KTc day1 Rate of chemo-induced death
of cytotoxic cells
0.6 [102]
KDN day1 Rate of chemo-induced death
of naive dendritic cells
0.6 [102]
KD day1 Rate of chemo-induced death
of dendritic cells
0.6 [102]
δCTcA3 none Effect of cisplatin to promote cancer
killing ability of cytotoxic cells
1 Assumed
αNCA none Fraction of chemo-induced dying tumor
cells that become necrotic cells
0.8 Assumed
δA1 day1 Decay rate of methotrexate 1.4466 [106]
δA2 day1 Decay rate of doxorubicin 8.3178 [104]
δA3 day1 Decay rate of cisplatin 39.9253 [105]