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Understanding the Importance of Microtubules in Normal Cell Division: Chemotherapy Connection
10 Apr 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Patricia Melloy*
Fairleigh Dickinson University
In introductory courses, students learn about microtubules as important structures but may not engage in a hands-on experience to localize microtubules themselves or to learn about their connection...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4663/?v=1
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Susan Burden-Gulley
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Jillian F Wise
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LakshmiRevathi Perumalsamy
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2016-Wilkie-EtAl-Using ODEs to Explore Cancer-Immune Dynamics and Tumor Dormancy
09 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Kathleen Wilkie
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Here we present a general method using ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to model and analyze cancer-immune interactions, and in particular, immune-induced tumor dormancy.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4172/?v=1
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2015-Heiko_Enderling-Integrating experimental data to calibrate quantitative cancer models
08 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Heiko Enderling
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For quantitative cancer models to be meaningful and interpretable the number of unknown parameters must be kept minimal. We focus on a tumor hierarchy of cancer stem and progenitor non-stem cancer...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4137/?v=1
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2014-Enderling-Chaplain-Mathematical Modeling of Tumor Growth and Treatment
08 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Heiko Enderling1, Mark Chaplain1
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Herein we describe fundamentals of mathematical modeling of tumor growth and tumor-host interactions, and summarize some of the seminal and most prominent approaches.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4109/?v=1
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2012-Gilbert_Koch-Modeling of Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamics of Cancer and Arthritis
07 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Gilbert Koch
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In this work we develop preclinical PKPD models based on fundamental biological and pharmacological principles. Equipped with a PKPD model, different dosing schedules could be simulated.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4077/?v=1
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1999-Peter_Deuflhard-Differential Equations in Technology and Medicine
26 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Peter Deuflhard
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It deals with a variety of challenging real life problems selected from clinical cancer therapy, communication technology, polymer production, and pharmaceutical drug design.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3867/?v=1
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2020-Stepien_Kostelich_Kuang-Mathematics Cancer An Undergraduate Bridge Course in Applied Mathematics
07 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Tracy L. Stepien1, Eric J. Kostelich1, Yang Kuang1
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Most undergraduates have limited experience with mathematical modeling. This paper describes a course on the mathematical models of cancer growth and treatment.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3730/?v=1
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Melanie Gubbels Bupp
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Lindsay Rush
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Kingsley Benjamin Obika
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Ashlee Tietje
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Metastatic Mastery: A Case and Game-Based Approach to Learning About Cancer Mechanisms
07 Aug 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sayali Kukday*1, Emilyn Frohn2, Alice Paige3
1. Iowa State University 2. Biomedical Animator 3. Fiction Author and Essayist
Mechanisms that contribute to the development of cancer are numerous and complicated, though most can be traced to a set of mutations in cell cycle regulatory genes that throw the process of cell...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3420/?v=1
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1-102C-CancerGrowth-ModelingScenario
22 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jennie D'Ambroise1, Jue Wang
SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury NY USA
This module guides students in the use of differential equation models to predict cancer growth and study treatment outcomes. Several classical models for cancer growth are presented including...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3222/?v=1
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1-150-CancerTherapy-ModelingScenario
22 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Iordanka Panayotova1, Maila Hallare2
1. Christopher Newport University 2. NSU Math
This activity builds upon elementary models on population growth. In particular, we compare two different treatment models of cancer therapy where in one, surgery happens before therapy and in the...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3195/?v=1
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6-017-OncolyticViruses-ModelingScenario
06 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Iordanka Panayotova1, Maila Brucal-Hallare2
1. Christopher Newport University, Newport News VA 23606 USA 2. Norfolk State University, Norfolk VA 23504 USA
Students explore oncolytic virotherapy using systems of differential equations and numerical simulations.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2997/?v=1
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River Suh
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Teaching Cancer Biology Through a Lens of Social Justice
04 Nov 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Yarid A. Mera1, Benjamin L. Wiggins*2
1. Seattle University 2. University of Washington
The biology classroom is not separate from the greater context of society; social issues can and should be presented in connection with the content. Here we present an example of antiracist...
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