Effect of tumor shape, size, and tissue transport properties on drug delivery to solid tumors
| Autor: | Seyed Mojtaba Mousavi Nayinian, Hossein Bazmara, Kaamran Raahemifar, Mostafa Sefidgar, Majid Bazargan, Madjid Soltani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Absorption (pharmacology)
Environmental Engineering Materials science Finite volume method Solid tumor Drug concentration Research Diffusion Drug Extravasation Biomedical Engineering Cell Biology Tissue transport properties Interstitial fluid Drug delivery Fluid dynamics Tumor shape and size Convection–diffusion equation Molecular Biology Biomedical engineering |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biological Engineering |
| DOI: | 10.32920/14638005.v1 |
| Popis: | Background The computational methods provide condition for investigation related to the process of drug delivery, such as convection and diffusion of drug in extracellular matrices, drug extravasation from microvessels or to lymphatic vessels. The information of this process clarifies the mechanisms of drug delivery from the injection site to absorption by a solid tumor. In this study, an advanced numerical method is used to solve fluid flow and solute transport equations simultaneously to investigate the effect of tumor shape and size on drug delivery to solid tumor. Methods The advanced mathematical model used in our previous work is further developed by adding solute transport equation to the governing equations. After applying appropriate boundary and initial conditions on tumor and surrounding tissue geometry, the element-based finite volume method is used for solving governing equations of drug delivery in solid tumor. Also, the effects of size and shape of tumor and some of tissue transport parameters such as effective pressure and hydraulic conductivity on interstitial fluid flow and drug delivery are investigated. Results Sensitivity analysis shows that drug delivery in prolate shape is significantly better than other tumor shapes. Considering size effect, increasing tumor size decreases drug concentration in interstitial fluid. This study shows that dependency of drug concentration in interstitial fluid to osmotic and intravascular pressure is negligible. Conclusions This study shows that among diffusion and convection mechanisms of drug transport, diffusion is dominant in most different tumor shapes and sizes. In tumors in which the convection has considerable effect, the drug concentration is larger than that of other tumors at the same time post injection. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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