Flow-based remodeling and function of tumor vasculature

基于流的肿瘤脉管系统重塑和功能

基本信息

批准号：
8460445
负责人：
LANCE L MUNN
金额：
$ 30.14万
依托单位：
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2010-06-01 至 2014-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8460445
关键词：
Address Affect Aftercare Algorithms Angiogenesis Inhibitors Animals Antibodies Area Under Curve Back Biology Blood Blood Vessels Blood flow Bolus Infusion Boxing Breast Carcinoma Caliber Cell Proliferation Cells Clinical Trials Complex Computer Architectures Contracts Convection Cytotoxic agent DC101 Monoclonal Antibody Data Data Set Dextrans Diffusion Dose Doxorubicin Drug Delivery Systems Drug Targeting Endothelial Cells Erythrocytes Extravasation Glioma Hematocrit procedure Hypoxia Image Individual Injection of therapeutic agent Kinetics Left Maintenance Maps Measurement Measures Mediating Metabolic Microscopy Modeling Morphogenesis Mus Neoplasms in Vascular Tissue Nitric Oxide Oranges Oxygen Pathway interactions Pattern Perfusion Permeability Pharmaceutical Preparations Physiology Plasma Plastics Play Process Production Resolution Role Running Signal Transduction Simulate Specific qualifier value Staging Structure System Testing Time Tissues Tracer Tumor Tissue Variant Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2 Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors Vascular remodeling Work Wound Healing base bevacizumab cancer cell cell motility dextran drug distribution improved intravital imaging mathematical model nanoparticle particle pressure public health relevance senescence shear stress simulation spatiotemporal success theories tissue oxygenation tumor two-photon vascular bed

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): "Normalization" of tumor blood vessels has shown promise to improve the efficacy of chemotherapeutics. In theory, anti-angiogenic drugs targeting endothelial VEGF signaling can improve vessel network structure and function, enhancing the transport of subsequent cytotoxic drugs to cancer cells. In practice, the effects are unpredictable, with varying levels of success. The predominant effects of anti-VEGF therapies are decreased vessel leakiness (hydraulic conductivity), decreased vessel diameters and pruning of the immature vessel network. It is thought that each of these can influence perfusion of the vessel network, inducing flow in regions that were previously sluggish or stagnant. Unfortunately, when anti-VEGF therapies affect vessel structure and function, the changes are dynamic and overlapping in time, and it has been difficult to identify a consistent and predictable normalization "window" during which perfusion and subsequent drug delivery is optimal. This is largely due to the non-linearity in the system, and the inability to distinguish the effects of decreased vessel leakiness from those due to network structural changes in clinical trials or animal studies. We have developed a mathematical model to calculate blood flow in complex tumor networks imaged by two- photon microscopy. The model incorporates the necessary and sufficient components for addressing the problem of normalization of tumor vasculature: i) lattice-Boltzmann calculations of the full flow field within the vasculature and within the tissue, ii) diffusion and convection of soluble species such as oxygen or drugs within vessels and the tissue domain, iii) distinct and spatially-resolved vessel hydraulic conductivities and permeabilities for each species, iv) erythrocyte particles advecting in the flow and delivering oxygen with real oxygen release kinetics, v) shear stress-mediated vascular remodeling. We propose to use this model, guided by multi-parameter intravital imaging of tumor vessel structure and function, to determine the structural and functional determinants of tumor vessel normalization.

描述（由申请人提供）：肿瘤血管的“归一化”已显示出有望提高化学治疗疗法的功效。从理论上讲，靶向内皮VEGF信号传导的抗血管生成药物可以改善血管网络的结构和功能，从而增强随后的细胞毒性药物向癌细胞的运输。实际上，效果是不可预测的，成功水平不同。抗VEGF疗法的主要作用是减少血管泄漏（液压电导率），血管直径降低和未成熟血管网络的修剪。人们认为，这些中的每一个都会影响血管网络的灌注，从而在以前缓慢或停滞的地区引起流动。不幸的是，当抗VEGF疗法影响血管的结构和功能时，这些变化是动态的和时间重叠的，并且很难确定一个一致且可预测的归一化“窗口”，在此期间，灌注和随后的药物输送是最佳的。这在很大程度上是由于系统中的非线性性，并且无法区分血管泄漏的影响与临床试验或动物研究中网络结构变化的影响的影响。我们已经开发了一个数学模型来计算由两光子显微镜成像的复杂肿瘤网络中的血流。 The model incorporates the necessary and sufficient components for addressing the problem of normalization of tumor vasculature: i) lattice-Boltzmann calculations of the full flow field within the vasculature and within the tissue, ii) diffusion and convection of soluble species such as oxygen or drugs within vessels and the tissue domain, iii) distinct and spatially-resolved vessel hydraulic conductivities and permeabilities for each species, iv）在流动中升级并用真实氧气释放动力学的氧颗粒，v）剪切应力介导的血管重塑。我们建议使用该模型，以肿瘤血管结构和功能的多参数静脉内成像为指导，以确定肿瘤血管归一化的结构和功能决定因素。