کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1870687 | 1530885 | 2016 | 25 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Physiological and pathological fibrosis.
• Biomathematics, bioinformatics, biomechanics and biophysics modeling.
• Top-down and bottom-up approaches.
• ODE-based models and Agent-based models.
• Thermostatted kinetic theory and theory of finite elasticity.
Pathological fibrosis is the result of a failure in the wound healing process. The comprehension and the related modeling of the different mechanisms that trigger fibrosis are a challenge of many researchers that work in the field of medicine and biology. The modern scientific analysis of a phenomenon generally consists of three major approaches: theoretical, experimental, and computational. Different theoretical tools coming from mathematics and physics have been proposed for the modeling of the physiological and pathological fibrosis. However a complete framework is missing and the development of a general theory is required. This review aims at finding a unified approach in the modeling of fibrosis diseases that takes into account the different phenomena occurring at each level: molecular, cellular and tissue. Specifically by means of a critical analysis of the different models that have been proposed in the mathematical, computational and physical biology, from molecular to tissue scales, a multiscale approach is proposed, an approach that has been strongly recommended by top level biologists in the past decades.
Journal: Physics of Life Reviews - Volume 17, July 2016, Pages 61–85