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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2019 Oct 8;67(5):1450–1461. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2019.2938485

TABLE I.

MODEL PARAMETERS

Model Parameter Symbol Baseline Value Reference
Hypoxia threshold θH 1/3 normoxia [44, 47]
Oxygen diffusion constant D oxygen 2.5 ×10−6cms−1 [48]
Blood oxygen concentration CO2 100 mmHg [44]
Estrogen diffusion constant D estrogen 2.45 × 10−6 cm2 s−1 *
AREG diffusion constant D AREG 3.18 × 10−7 cm2 s−1 [49]**
Proliferation rate (frequency) λP ≤ 1 per 16 hours [50, 51]
Cell cycle time τP 16 hours [50, 51]
Progenitor symmetric proliferation probability ωP 100%
Proliferation cycles before differentiation P max 50 [52, 53]
Stem cell symmetric proliferation probability ωsc 12% [54]
Mature mammary cell radius r 5μm [51,55]
Healthy cell oxygen consumption rate λH 45 attoMol cell−1 sec−1 [55]
Cancer cell oxygen consumption rate λC 4.5x healthy cell rate [55]
Hypoxia time to necrosis τN 12 hours [56]
Lysis volume increase due to swelling VL 100% [57, 58]
Lysis time τL 6 hours [59]
Time to calcification τC 14 days [60]
Calcified volume % of pre-lysis cell volume VC 30% [61]
Estrogen baseline (% perturbation) 0.85 (0.05)
FGF baseline (% perturbation) 0.5 (0.1)

Important model parameter baseline values. When not readily available in the literature, diffusion constants were estimated either through interpolation from values from structurally similar molecules (*) or from known values based on relative molecular weights (**). Other uncited values were determined from model calibration.

Normalized values. We have reduced the value for stem cell symmetric proliferation by 1% from [54].