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ReviewCurrent issues in molecular biology2025

An Insight into Cancer Cells and Disease Progression Through the Lens of Mathematical Modeling.

Polychronis Michalakis, Dimitra Vasilaki, Ali Jihad Abdallah, Charilaos Asikis, Athina Niakou, Athanasios Stratos, Alexandros Tsouknidas, Elaine Johnstone, Konstantinos Michalakis

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Review in Current issues in molecular biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Polychronis MichalakisFaculty of Health Sciences, European University of Cyprus, Nicosia 2404, Cyprus.
Dimitra VasilakiCenter for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology, School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6597-7600
Ali Jihad AbdallahCenter for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology, School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8298-6357
Charilaos AsikisCenter for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology, School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
Athina NiakouFaculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Athanasios StratosFaculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0009-0006-5635-8919
Alexandros TsouknidasCenter for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology, School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7339-3165
Elaine JohnstoneNuffield Department, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.
Konstantinos MichalakisCenter for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology, School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5891-4823

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During cancer initiation, normal cells acquire mutations disrupting standard cellular processes, activating oncogenes and inactivating tumor suppressor genes, acquiring the well-described hallmarks of cancer on the path to malignancy. This process is influenced by a combination of physiological and metabolic pathways, as well as environmental cues, and leads to abnormal cell cycle, increased cell motility, and invasive characteristics. Cancer cell organelles also present some distinct differences from those of normal cells. Cancer progression requires certain tumorigenic biochemical pathways to be activated. However, mechanical cues are also important, as they have an effect on cell differentiation and fate. A continuous biochemical-biomechanical interaction exists, which affects the mechanical properties of the cells, as well as their behavior. This review aims to focus on the mathematical relationships governing cancer mechanobiology and examine how the altered mechanical properties of a cancer cell may affect malignant progression.

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cancer biomechanicscancer initiationcancer progressioncell biomechanicscell organelles mechanical propertiesDNA mechanicsmathematical modeling

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PMID40728946
PMCPMC12293899

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