Computer Simulation in Cell Radiobiology: 74 (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics) - Softcover

Yakovlev, Andrej Yu.

 
9783540194576: Computer Simulation in Cell Radiobiology: 74 (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3540194576 ISBN 13: 9783540194576
Verlag: Springer, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

The search for ways to overcome tumour radioresistance is a major problem of experimental and clinical radiation oncology. The diffi­ culties involved in the attempts to solve this problem are a matter of common knowledge. In many a laboratory extensive studies are un­ derway of factors determining tumour tissue response to irradiation and of methods for exerting directional effect upon those factors. Such studies have revealed that, at least at the cellular level, a considerable number of factors manifest themselves which are respon­ sible for radiation effect (1] • Among those are: spatial heteroge­ neity of tumour cell population producing radioresistant cell reser­ ves (hypoxic cells of solid tumours); differing radiosensitivities of cell life cycle phases; intrinsic dynamics of the processes of radi­ ation damage and postradiation cell recovery; induction of prolifera­ tive processes in response to the death of some cells within the po­ pulation; the stochastic nature of cell kinetics and complicated in­ teraction between individual cell subpopulations corresponding to di­ fferent tumour loci. Questions arise as to whether the researchers are now in possession of adequate means for interpreting experimental findings and clinical evidence and whether there are procedures for performing complex analysis and predicting specific tumour responses to various irradiation regimens and to combined antitumoral effects, taking into account the complexities of the phenomena under study.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Reseña del editor

The search for ways to overcome tumour radioresistance is a major problem of experimental and clinical radiation oncology. The diffi­ culties involved in the attempts to solve this problem are a matter of common knowledge. In many a laboratory extensive studies are un­ derway of factors determining tumour tissue response to irradiation and of methods for exerting directional effect upon those factors. Such studies have revealed that, at least at the cellular level, a considerable number of factors manifest themselves which are respon­ sible for radiation effect (1] · Among those are: spatial heteroge­ neity of tumour cell population producing radioresistant cell reser­ ves (hypoxic cells of solid tumours); differing radiosensitivities of cell life cycle phases; intrinsic dynamics of the processes of radi­ ation damage and postradiation cell recovery; induction of prolifera­ tive processes in response to the death of some cells within the po­ pulation; the stochastic nature of cell kinetics and complicated in­ teraction between individual cell subpopulations corresponding to di­ fferent tumour loci. Questions arise as to whether the researchers are now in possession of adequate means for interpreting experimental findings and clinical evidence and whether there are procedures for performing complex analysis and predicting specific tumour responses to various irradiation regimens and to combined antitumoral effects, taking into account the complexities of the phenomena under study.

Reseña del editor

This research monograph demonstrates the possible ways of using stochastic simulation for exploring cell kinetics, emphasising the effects of cell radiobiology. In vitro kinetics of normal and irradiated cells is the main subject, but some approaches to the simulation of controlled cell systems are considered as well: the epithelium of the small intestine in mice taken as a case in point. Of particular interest is the evaluation of simulation modelling as a tool for gaining insight into biological processes and hence the new inferences from concrete experimental data, concerning regularities in cell population response to irradiation. The book is intended to stimulate interest among computer science specialists in developing new, more efficient means for the simulation of cell systems and to help radiobiologists in interpreting the experimental data. The reader is expected to be acquainted with fundamentals of the theory of probability and stochastic processes. Applications are addressed to a biologically educated reader.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3540194576
ISBN 13 
9783540194576
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
140
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
CMN Printpool Inh. Mathis Neumann
https://www.also.com/ec/cms5/en_6000/6000/index.jsp

Friedrich-Karl-Str. 9
Hamburg
Deutschland

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780387194578: Computer Simulation in Cell Radiobiology (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0387194576 ISBN 13:  9780387194578
Softcover