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Kojic M, Milosevic M, Simic V, Milicevic B, Terracciano R, Filgueira CS. On the generality of the finite element modeling physical fields in biological systems by the multiscale smeared concept (Kojic transport model). Heliyon 2024; 10:e26354. [PMID: 38434281 PMCID: PMC10907537 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2024] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
Abstract
The biomechanical and biochemical processes in the biological systems of living organisms are extremely complex. Advances in understanding these processes are mainly achieved by laboratory and clinical investigations, but in recent decades they are supported by computational modeling. Besides enormous efforts and achievements in this modeling, there still is a need for new methods that can be used in everyday research and medical practice. In this report, we give a view of the generality of the finite element methodology introduced by the first author and supported by his collaborators. It is based on the multiscale smeared physical fields, termed as Kojic Transport Model (KTM), published in several journal papers and summarized in a recent book (Kojic et al., 2022) [1]. We review relevant literature to demonstrate the distinctions and advantages of our methodology and indicate possible further applications. We refer to our published results by a selection of a few examples which include modeling of partitioning, blood flow, molecular transport within the pancreas, multiscale-multiphysics model of coupling electrical field and ion concentration, and a model of convective-diffusive transport within the lung parenchyma. Two new examples include a model of convective-diffusive transport within a growing tumor, and drug release from nanofibers with fiber degradation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Milos Kojic
- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Institute of Information Technologies, University of Kragujevac, Department of Technical- Technological Sciences, Jovana Cvijica bb, 34000, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Belgrade Metropolitan University, Tadeusa Koscuska 63, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Institute of Information Technologies, University of Kragujevac, Department of Technical- Technological Sciences, Jovana Cvijica bb, 34000, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, 34000, Serbia
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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Milosevic M, Simic V, Nikolic A, Shao N, Kawamura Hashimoto C, Godin B, Leonard F, Liu X, Kojic M. Modeling critical interaction for metastasis between circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and platelets adhered to the capillary wall. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2023; 242:107810. [PMID: 37769417 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2023] [Revised: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE We used a 2D fluid-solid interaction (FSI) model to investigate the critical conditions for the arrest of the CTCs traveling through the narrowed capillary with a platelet attached to the capillary wall. This computational model allows us to determine the deformations and the progression of the passage of the CTC through different types of microvessels with platelet included. METHODS The modeling process is obtained using the strong coupling approach following the remeshing procedure. Also, the 1D FE rope element for simulating active ligand-receptor bonds is implemented in our computational tool (described below). RESULTS A relationship between the CTCs properties (size and stiffness), the platelet size and stiffness, and the ligand-receptor interaction intensity, on one side, and the time in contact between the CTCs and platelet and conditions for the cell arrest, on the other side, are determined. The model is further validated in vitro by using a microfluidic device with metastatic breast tumor cells. CONCLUSIONS The computational framework that is presented, with accompanying results, can be used as a powerful tool to study biomechanical conditions for CTCs arrest in interaction with platelets, giving a prognosis of disease progression.
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- Miljan Milosevic
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34 000 Kragujevac, Serbia; Institute for Information Technologies, University of Kragujevac, Jovana Cvijica, 34 000 Kragujevac, Serbia; Belgrade Metropolitan University, Tadeuša Košćuška 63, 11158 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34 000 Kragujevac, Serbia; Institute for Information Technologies, University of Kragujevac, Jovana Cvijica, 34 000 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- The Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia, Fruskogorska 1, 21 000 Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave, Houston, TX 77030, United States
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave, Houston, TX 77030, United States; Houston Methodist Research Institute, Department of Neurology, 6670 Bertner Ave, Houston, TX 77030, United States
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave, Houston, TX 77030, United States
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave, Houston, TX 77030, United States; Houston Methodist Research Institute, Department of Neurology, 6670 Bertner Ave, Houston, TX 77030, United States
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave, Houston, TX 77030, United States
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34 000 Kragujevac, Serbia; Houston Methodist Research Institute, Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave, Houston, TX 77030, United States; Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Kneza Mihaila 35, 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia
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Han K, Zou J, Zhao Z, Baskurt Z, Zheng Y, Barnes T, Croke JM, Fyles A, Gladwish AP, Lecavalier-Barsoum M, Lukovic J, Marchand EL, Milosevic M, Taggar A, Bratman SV, Leung EW. Clinical Validation of HPV ctDNA for Early Detection of Residual Disease Following Chemoradiation in Cervical Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:S7-S8. [PMID: 37784556 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) Despite chemoradiation (CRT), 30-40% of patients with locally advanced cervical cancer relapse. Most cases are caused by human papilloma virus (HPV), and HPV circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) may identify patients at highest risk of relapse. Our previous pilot study showed that detectable HPV ctDNA at the end of CRT is associated with inferior progression-free survival (PFS) using digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR), and that a next generation sequencing approach (HPV-seq) may outperform dPCR. We hypothesized that HPV ctDNA may identify cervical cancer patients at increased risk of relapse following CRT and aimed to prospectively validate HPV ctDNA as a tool for early detection of residual disease. MATERIALS/METHODS This prospective, multicenter validation study accrued 70 patients with HPV+ stage IB-IVA cervical cancer treated with definitive CRT from 2017-2022. Patients underwent phlebotomy at baseline, end of, 4-6 weeks and 3 months post CRT for HPV ctDNA levels. HPV genotyping was performed on the baseline plasma sample using HPV-seq. HPV genotype-specific DNA levels in plasma were quantified using both dPCR and HPV-seq. PFS was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared using the log rank test. Multivariable Cox regression analyses incorporating stage and HPV ctDNA detectability assessed independent prognostic factors associated with PFS. RESULTS At the time of abstract, results for 67 patients were available. The majority had squamous histology (84%) and stage IIB (36%) or IIIC1 (25%) disease. HPV genotyping using HPV-seq revealed 54% (36/67) of cases harboring HPV-16, and 46% harboring other HPV types: 15 HPV-18; 5 HPV-59; 2 HPV-31; 2 HPV-33; 2 HPV-52; 1 each HPV-39, HPV-45, HPV-53, HPV-58, and HPV-82. With a median follow up of 2.2 (range 0.4 - 5.2) years, there were 21 PFS events. Most recurrences (14/21) were distant and/or paraaortic; 4 local and nodal/distant; 2 pelvic nodal; and 1 local. Patients with detectable HPV ctDNA on dPCR at the end of, 4-6 weeks and 3 months post CRT had significantly worse 2-year PFS compared to those with undetectable HPV ctDNA (78 vs 52%, p = 0.04; 82 vs 26%, p < 0.001; and 80 vs 23%, p = < 0.001, respectively). HPV-seq showed similar results (87 vs 55%, p = 0.02; 81 vs 45%, p = 0.003; and 84 vs 31%, p = < 0.001, respectively). On multivariable analyses, detectable HPV ctDNA on dPCR and HPV-seq remained independently associated with inferior PFS (see table). CONCLUSION HPV-seq enables HPV genotyping directly from plasma in locally advanced cervical cancer. Persistent HPV ctDNA following CRT is independently associated with inferior PFS in this prospective validation study. HPV ctDNA testing can be used to identify, as early as at the end of CRT, patients at high risk of recurrence in future treatment intensification trials.
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- K Han
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Tomasevic S, Milosevic M, Milicevic B, Simic V, Prodanovic M, Mijailovich SM, Filipovic N. Computational Modeling on Drugs Effects for Left Ventricle in Cardiomyopathy Disease. Pharmaceutics 2023; 15:793. [PMID: 36986654 PMCID: PMC10058954 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15030793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2022] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/04/2023] Open
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Cardiomyopathy is associated with structural and functional abnormalities of the ventricular myocardium and can be classified in two major groups: hypertrophic (HCM) and dilated (DCM) cardiomyopathy. Computational modeling and drug design approaches can speed up the drug discovery and significantly reduce expenses aiming to improve the treatment of cardiomyopathy. In the SILICOFCM project, a multiscale platform is developed using coupled macro- and microsimulation through finite element (FE) modeling of fluid-structure interactions (FSI) and molecular drug interactions with the cardiac cells. FSI was used for modeling the left ventricle (LV) with a nonlinear material model of the heart wall. Simulations of the drugs' influence on the electro-mechanics LV coupling were separated in two scenarios, defined by the principal action of specific drugs. We examined the effects of Disopyramide and Dygoxin which modulate Ca2+ transients (first scenario), and Mavacamten and 2-deoxy adenosine triphosphate (dATP) which affect changes of kinetic parameters (second scenario). Changes of pressures, displacements, and velocity distributions, as well as pressure-volume (P-V) loops in the LV models of HCM and DCM patients were presented. Additionally, the results obtained from the SILICOFCM Risk Stratification Tool and PAK software for high-risk HCM patients closely followed the clinical observations. This approach can give much more information on risk prediction of cardiac disease to specific patients and better insight into estimated effects of drug therapy, leading to improved patient monitoring and treatment.
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- Smiljana Tomasevic
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
- BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development Center, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development Center, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
- Institute for Information Technologies, University of Kragujevac, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
- BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development Center, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development Center, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
- Institute for Information Technologies, University of Kragujevac, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development Center, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
- Institute for Information Technologies, University of Kragujevac, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
- FilamenTech, Inc., Newton, MA 02458, USA
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- FilamenTech, Inc., Newton, MA 02458, USA
- BioCAT, Department of Biology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA
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- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
- BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development Center, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
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Simic V, Milosevic M, Milicevic V, Filipovic N, Kojic M. A novel composite smeared finite element for mechanics (CSFEM): Some applications. Technol Health Care 2023; 31:719-733. [PMID: 36314177 DOI: 10.3233/thc-220414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND Mechanical forces at the micro-scale level have been recognized as an important factor determining various biological functions. The study of cell or tissue mechanics is critical to understand problems in physiology and disease development. OBJECTIVE The complexity of computational models and efforts made for their development in the past required significant robustness and different approaches in the modeling process. METHOD For the purpose of modeling process simplifications, the smeared mechanics concept was introduced by M. Kojic as a general concept for modeling the deformation of composite continua. A composite smeared finite element for mechanics (CSFEM) was formulated which consists of the supporting medium and immersed subdomains of deformable continua with mutual interactions. Interaction is modeled using 1D contact elements (for both tangential and normal directions), where the interaction takes into account appropriate material parameters as well as the contact areas. RESULTS In this paper we have presented verification examples with applications of the CSFEMs that include the pancreatic tumor tissue, nano-indentation model and tumor growth model. CONCLUSION We have described CSFEM and contact elements between compartments that can interact. Accuracy and applicability are determined on two verification and tumor growth examples.
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- Vladimir Simic
- Institute for Information Technologies, Department of Technological Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Institute for Information Technologies, Department of Technological Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Belgrade Metropolitan University, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Faculty for Engineering Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
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Filipovic N, Sustersic T, Milosevic M, Milicevic B, Simic V, Prodanovic M, Mijailovic S, Kojic M. SILICOFCM platform, multiscale modeling of left ventricle from echocardiographic images and drug influence for cardiomyopathy disease. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2022; 227:107194. [PMID: 36368295 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.107194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2022] [Revised: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE In silico clinical trials are the future of medicine and virtual testing and simulation are the future of medical engineering. The use of a computational platform can reduce costs and time required for developing new models of medical devices and drugs. The computational platform, which is one of the main results of the SILICOFCM project, was developed using state-of-the-art finite element modeling for macro simulation of fluid-structure interaction with micro modeling at the molecular level for drug interaction with the cardiac cells. SILICOFCM platform is using for risk prediction and optimal drug therapy of familial cardiomyopathy in a specific patient. METHODS In order to obtain 3D image reconstruction, the U-net architecture was used to determine geometric parameters for the left ventricle which were extracted from the echocardiographic apical and M-mode views. A micro-mechanics cellular model which includes three kinetic processes of sarcomeric proteins interactions was developed. It allows simulation of the drugs which are divided into three major groups defined by the principal action of each drug. Fluid-solid coupling for the left ventricle was presented. A nonlinear material model of the heart wall that was developed by using constitutive curves which include the stress-strain relationship was used. RESULTS The results obtained with the parametric model of the left ventricle where pressure-volume (PV) diagrams depend on the change of Ca2+ were presented. It directly affects the ejection fraction. The presented approach with the variation of the left ventricle (LV) geometry and simulations which include the influence of different parameters on the PV diagrams are directly interlinked with drug effects on the heart function. It includes different drugs such as Entresto and Digoxin that directly affect the cardiac PV diagrams and ejection fraction. CONCLUSIONS Computational platforms such as the SILICOFCM platform are novel tools for risk prediction of cardiac disease in a specific patient that will certainly open a new avenue for in silico clinical trials in the future.
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- Nenad Filipovic
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia; BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development center, Kragujevac, Serbia.
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- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia; BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development center, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia; BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development center, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia; BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development center, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia; BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development center, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development center, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia; BioIRC Bioengineering Research and Development center, Kragujevac, Serbia
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Scott A, Weersink M, Liu Z, Milosevic M, Croke J, Fyles A, Lukovic J, Rink A, Beiki-Ardakani A, Borg J, Xie J, Chan K, Ballantyne H, Skliarenko J, Conway J, Gladwish A, Weersink R, Han K. Comparing Dosimetry of Locally Advanced Cervix Cancer Patients Treated with 3 vs. 4 Fractions of MRI-Guided Brachytherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.07.601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mitera G, Tsang D, Wright P, Sussman J, Craig T, Thompson R, Tyldesley S, Foxcroft S, Goddard K, Greenland J, Koul R, McCurdy B, Milosevic M, Morneau M, Morrison A, Pan L, Pantarotto J, Rutledge R, Warde P, Patel S. First Pan-Canadian Consensus Recommendations for Proton Beam Therapy Access in Canada. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.07.1439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Milicevic B, Simic V, Milosevic M, Ivanovic M, Stojanovic B, Kojic M, Filipovic N. Integration of Surrogate Huxley Muscle Model into Finite Element Solver for Simulation of the Cardiac Cycle. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2022; 2022:3943-3946. [PMID: 36086276 DOI: 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9870995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Clinicians can use biomechanical simulations of cardiac functioning to evaluate various real and fictional events. Our present understanding of the molecular processes behind muscle contraction has inspired Huxley-like muscle models. Huxley-type muscle models, unlike Hill-type muscle models, are capable of modeling non-uniform and unstable contractions. Huxley's computational requirements, on the other hand, are substantially higher than those of Hill-type models, making large-scale simulations impractical to use. We created a data-driven surrogate model that acts similarly to the original Huxley muscle model but requires substantially less processing power in order to make the Huxley muscle models easier to use in computer simulations. We gathered data from multiple numerical simulations and trained a deep neural network based on gated-recurrent units. Once we accomplished satisfying precision, we integrated the surrogate model into our finite element solver and simulated a full cardiac cycle. Clinical Relevance- This enables clinicians to track the effects of changes in muscles at the microscale to the cardiac contraction (macroscale).
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Filipovic N, Saveljic I, Sustersic T, Milosevic M, Milicevic B, Simic V, Ivanovic M, Kojic M. <em>In Silico</em> Clinical Trials for Cardiovascular Disease. J Vis Exp 2022. [DOI: 10.3791/63573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Stevanovic N, Markovic V, Milosevic M, Djurdjevic A, Stajic J, Milenkovic B, Nikezic D. Correlations between track parameters in a solid-state nuclear track detector and its diffraction pattern. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.109986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Scott A, Polo A, Zubizarreta E, Aidoo C, Milosevic M, Rodin D. Access to Radiotherapy in Ghana: A Geospatial Analysis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Milosevic M, Anic M, Nikolic D, Geroski V, Milicevic B, Kojic M, Filipovic N. Application of in silico Platform for the Development and Optimization of Fully Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold Designs. Front Med Technol 2021; 3:724062. [PMID: 35047953 PMCID: PMC8757700 DOI: 10.3389/fmedt.2021.724062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS), made either from polymers or from metals, are promising materials for treating coronary artery disease through the processes of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Despite the opinion that bioresorbable polymers are more promising for coronary stents, their long-term advantages over metallic alloys have not yet been demonstrated. The development of new polymer-based BVS or optimization of the existing ones requires engineers to perform many very expensive mechanical tests to identify optimal structural geometry and material characteristics. in silico mechanical testing opens the possibility for a fast and low-cost process of analysis of all the mechanical characteristics and also provides the possibility to compare two or more competing designs. In this study, we used a recently introduced material model of poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA) fully bioresorbable vascular scaffold and recently empowered numerical InSilc platform to perform in silico mechanicals tests of two different stent designs with different material and geometrical characteristics. The result of inflation, radial compression, three-point bending, and two-plate crush tests shows that numerical procedures with true experimental constitutive relationships could provide reliable conclusions and a significant contribution to the optimization and design of bioresorbable polymer-based stents.
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- Miljan Milosevic
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Institute for Information Technologies, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Faculty of Information Technologies, Belgrade Metropolitan University, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Institute for Information Technologies, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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Madariaga Urrutia A, Bonilla L, King I, Garg S, Bowering V, Dhani N, Milosevic M, Han K, Lajkosz K, Karakasis K, Ghiassi P, Siman S, Rouzbahman M, Downs G, Park N, Sheen C, Udagani S, Stockley T, Oza A, Lheureux S. 805P Clinically actionable alterations in adolescents and young adults (AYA) with gynaecological cancers. Ann Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2021.08.1247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Ziemys A, Simic V, Milosevic M, Kojic M, Liu YT, Yokoi K. Attenuated Microcirculation in Small Metastatic Tumors in Murine Liver. Pharmaceutics 2021; 13:pharmaceutics13050703. [PMID: 34065867 PMCID: PMC8150276 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13050703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Metastatic cancer disease is the major cause of death in cancer patients. Because those small secondary tumors are clinically hardly detectable in their early stages, little is known about drug biodistribution and permeation into those metastatic tumors potentially contributing to insufficient clinical success against metastatic disease. Our recent studies indicated that breast cancer liver metastases may have compromised perfusion of intratumoral capillaries hindering the delivery of therapeutics for yet unknown reasons. To understand the microcirculation of small liver metastases, we have utilized computational simulations to study perfusion and oxygen concentration fields in and around the metastases smaller than 700 µm in size at the locations of portal vessels, central vein, and liver lobule acinus. Despite tumor vascularization, the results show that blood flow in those tumors can be substantially reduced indicating the presence of inadequate blood pressure gradients across tumors. A low blood pressure may contribute to the collapsed intratumoral capillary lumen limiting tumor perfusion that phenomenologically corroborates with our previously published in vivo studies. Tumors that are smaller than the liver lobule size and originating at different lobule locations may possess a different microcirculation environment and tumor perfusion. The acinus and portal vessel locations in the lobule were found to be the most beneficial to tumor growth based on tumor access to blood flow and intratumoral oxygen. These findings suggest that microcirculation states of small metastatic tumors can potentially contribute to physiological barriers preventing efficient delivery of therapeutic substances into small tumors.
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- Arturas Ziemys
- Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA; (M.K.); (Y.T.L.); (K.Y.)
- Correspondence:
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia; (V.S.); (M.M.)
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia; (V.S.); (M.M.)
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA; (M.K.); (Y.T.L.); (K.Y.)
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia; (V.S.); (M.M.)
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA; (M.K.); (Y.T.L.); (K.Y.)
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA; (M.K.); (Y.T.L.); (K.Y.)
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Milosevic M, Rodin D. SP-0049 Using health economics to make the case for brachytherapy – HALYS, QALYS and DALYS. Radiother Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(21)06476-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Abdovic S, Cuk M, Hizar I, Milosevic M, Jerkovic A, Saraga M. Pretreatment morning urine osmolality and oral desmopressin lyophilisate treatment outcome in patients with primary monosymptomatic enuresis. Int Urol Nephrol 2021; 53:1529-1534. [PMID: 33774753 DOI: 10.1007/s11255-021-02843-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE To determine the association between urine osmolality (Uosm) in patients with primary monosymptomatic enuresis (PMNE) and response to desmopressin (dDAVP) lyophilisate. METHODS This was a prospective cohort study that included 419 children with enuresis seen in outpatient clinic between October 2017 and October 2019. Patient workup included symptom checklist, 48 h frequency/volume chart, kidney and bladder ultrasound, uroflow, urinalysis and culture, spot urine Ca/creatinine, and first-morning Uosm. Patients < 5 years, with secondary enuresis, or loss of follow-up were excluded. Oral dDAVP lyophilisate was recommended to all with PMNE and normal bladder capacity. After 1 month of therapy, initial success was assessed according to ICCS. Significant predictor variables for complete response were identified and analyzed using correlation coefficients and binary logistic regression. RESULTS There were 48 patients with PMNE who received dDAVP and were followed for treatment success. Partial and complete responses were achieved for 14 (29.2%) and 20 cases (41.7%), respectively. Older age and lower Uosm were found to be significantly in favor of complete response to dDAVP lyophilisate, P = 0.007 and 0.033, respectively. ROC analysis determined the Uosm of ≤ 814 mOsm/kg as a cut-off value for complete success (sensitivity 65% and specificity 75%, AUC = 68.2%). The odds ratio for complete success for selected cut-off value was 5.57 (95% CI 1.588-19.551, P = 0.007). CONCLUSION High pretreatment morning Uosm (> 814 mOsm/kg) might be suggestive of an alternative treatment to dDAVP lyophilisate in PMNE because of the higher risk of treatment failure.
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- S Abdovic
- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Hospital Zagreb, Klaiceva 16, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Hospital Zagreb, Klaiceva 16, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Hospital Zagreb, Klaiceva 16, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Hospital Zagreb, Klaiceva 16, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, University Hospital Center Split, Split, Croatia
- School of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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Filipovic N, Nikolic D, Isailovic V, Milosevic M, Geroski V, Karanasiou G, Fawdry M, Flanagan A, Fotiadis D, Kojic M. In vitro and in silico testing of partially and fully bioresorbable vascular scaffold. J Biomech 2020; 115:110158. [PMID: 33360181 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.110158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Coronary artery disease (CAD), one of the leading causes of death globally, occurs due to the growth of atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary arteries, causing lesions which restrict the flow of blood to the myocardium. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), including balloon angioplasty and coronary stent deployment is a standard clinical invasive treatment for CAD. Coronary stents are delivered using a balloon catheter inserted across the lesion. The balloon is inflated to a nominal pressure, opening the occluded artery, deploying the stent and improving the flow of blood to the myocardium. All stent manufacturers have to perform standard in vitro mechanical testing under different physiological conditions. In this study, partially and fully bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS) from Boston Scientific Limited have been examined in vitro and in silico for three different test methods: inflation, radial compression and crush resistance. We formulated a material model for poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) and implemented it into our in-house software tool. A comparison of the different experimental results is presented in the form of graphs showing displacement-force curves, diameter - load curves or diameter - pressure curves. There is a strong correlation between simulation and real experiments with a coefficient of determination (R2) > 0.99 and a correlation coefficient (R) > 0.99. This preliminary study has shown that in-silico tests can mimic the applicable ISO standards for mechanical in vitro stent testing, providing the opportunity to use data generated using in-silico testing to partially or fully replacing the mechanical testing required for regulatory submission.
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- Nenad Filipovic
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia; Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia.
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia; Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia; Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia; Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia; Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center, BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia
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Khoja L, Hurst N, Weiss J, Liu Z, Laframboise S, Clarke B, Han K, Milosevic M, Fyles A, Dhani N, Croke J. Vulvar Carcinoma: Patterns Of Practice And Clinical Outcomes From A Large Academic Cancer Centre. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.07.1561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Milosevic M, Edwards J, Tsang D, Dunning J, Shackcloth M, Batchelor T, Coonar A, Hasan J, Davidson B, Marchbank A, Grumett S, Williams N, Macbeth F, Farewell V, Treasure T. Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer: updated analysis of 93 randomized patients - control survival is much better than previously assumed. Colorectal Dis 2020; 22:1314-1324. [PMID: 32388895 PMCID: PMC7611567 DOI: 10.1111/codi.15113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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AIM Lung metastases from colorectal cancer are resected in selected patients in the belief that this confers a significant survival advantage. It is generally assumed that the 5-year survival of these patients would be near zero without metastasectomy. We tested the clinical effectiveness of this practice in Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer (PulMiCC), a randomized, controlled noninferiority trial. METHOD Multidisciplinary teams in 14 hospitals recruited patients with resectable lung metastases into a two-arm trial. Randomization was remote and stratified according to site, with minimization for age, sex, primary cancer stage, interval since primary resection, prior liver involvement, number of metastases and carcinoembryonic antigen level. The trial management group was blind to patient allocation until after intention-to-treat analysis. RESULTS From 2010 to 2016, 93 participants were randomized. These patients were 35-86 years of age and had between one and six lung metastases at a median of 2.7 years after colorectal cancer resection; 29% had prior liver metastasectomy. The patient groups were well matched and the characteristics of these groups were similar to those of observational studies. The median survival after metastasectomy was 3.5 (95% CI: 3.1-6.6) years compared with 3.8 (95% CI: 3.1-4.6) years for controls. The estimated unadjusted hazard ratio for death within 5 years, comparing the metastasectomy group with the control group, was 0.93 (95% CI: 0.56-1.56). Use of chemotherapy or local ablation was infrequent and similar in each group. CONCLUSION Patients in the control group (who did not undergo lung metastasectomy) have better survival than is assumed. Survival in the metastasectomy group is comparable with the many single-arm follow-up studies. The groups were well matched with features similar to those reported in case series.
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- M. Milosevic
- Institute for Lung Diseases of VojvodinaThoracic Surgery ClinicSremska KamenicaSerbia
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- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSheffieldUK
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- Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBasildonUK
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- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustThe James Cook University HospitalMiddlesbroughUK
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- Liverpool Heart And Chest Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLiverpoolUK
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- Bristol Royal InfirmaryUniversity Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation TrustBristolUK
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- Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation TrustCambridgeUK
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- The Christie NHS Foundation TrustManchesterUK
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- Division of SurgeryRoyal Free London NHS Foundation TrustUCLLondonUK
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- Derriford HospitalUniversity Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustPlymouthUK
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- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustNew Cross HospitalWolverhamptonUK
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- Surgical & Interventional Trials Unit (SITU)University College LondonLondonUK
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- Centre for Trials ResearchCardiff UniversityCardiffUK
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- Clinical Operational Research UnitUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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Milosevic M, Stojanovic DB, Simic V, Grkovic M, Bjelovic M, Uskokovic PS, Kojic M. Preparation and modeling of three-layered PCL/PLGA/PCL fibrous scaffolds for prolonged drug release. Sci Rep 2020; 10:11126. [PMID: 32636450 PMCID: PMC7341868 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-68117-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
The authors present the preparation procedure and a computational model of a three‐layered fibrous scaffold for prolonged drug release. The scaffold, produced by emulsion/sequential electrospinning, consists of a poly(d,l-lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) fiber layer sandwiched between two poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) layers. Experimental results of drug release rates from the scaffold are compared with the results of the recently introduced computational finite element (FE) models for diffusive drug release from nanofibers to the three-dimensional (3D) surrounding medium. Two different FE models are used: (1) a 3D discretized continuum and fibers represented by a simple radial one-dimensional (1D) finite elements, and (2) a 3D continuum discretized by composite smeared finite elements (CSFEs) containing the fiber smeared and surrounding domains. Both models include the effects of polymer degradation and hydrophobicity (as partitioning) of the drug at the fiber/surrounding interface. The CSFE model includes a volumetric fraction of fibers and diameter distribution, and is additionally enhanced by using correction function to improve the accuracy of the model. The computational results are validated on Rhodamine B (fluorescent drug l) and other hydrophilic drugs. Agreement with experimental results proves that numerical models can serve as efficient tools for drug release to the surrounding porous medium or biological tissue. It is demonstrated that the introduced three-layered scaffold delays the drug release process and can be used for the time-controlled release of drugs in postoperative therapy.
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- Miljan Milosevic
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, Kragujevac, 34000, Serbia.,Belgrade Metropolitan University, Tadeusa Koscuska 63, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Karnegijeva 4, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, Kragujevac, 34000, Serbia
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- Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Karnegijeva 4, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- Department for Minimally Invasive Upper Digestive Surgery, Clinical Center of Serbia, Hospital for Digestive Surgery - First Surgical Hospital, Dr Koste Todorovica 66, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Karnegijeva 4, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, Kragujevac, 34000, Serbia. .,The Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. .,Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia.
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Kojic M, Milosevic M, Simic V, Milicevic B, Geroski V, Nizzero S, Ziemys A, Filipovic N, Ferrari M. Smeared Multiscale Finite Element Models for Mass Transport and Electrophysiology Coupled to Muscle Mechanics. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2020; 7:381. [PMID: 31921800 PMCID: PMC6914730 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Mass transport represents the most fundamental process in living organisms. It includes delivery of nutrients, oxygen, drugs, and other substances from the vascular system to tissue and transport of waste and other products from cells back to vascular and lymphatic network and organs. Furthermore, movement is achieved by mechanical forces generated by muscles in coordination with the nervous system. The signals coming from the brain, which have the character of electrical waves, produce activation within muscle cells. Therefore, from a physics perspective, there exist a number of physical fields within the body, such as velocities of transport, pressures, concentrations of substances, and electrical potential, which is directly coupled to biochemical processes of transforming the chemical into mechanical energy and further internal forces for motion. The overall problems of mass transport and electrophysiology coupled to mechanics can be investigated theoretically by developing appropriate computational models. Due to the enormous complexity of the biological system, it would be almost impossible to establish a detailed computational model for the physical fields related to mass transport, electrophysiology, and coupled fields. To make computational models feasible for applications, we here summarize a concept of smeared physical fields, with coupling among them, and muscle mechanics, which includes dependence on the electrical potential. Accuracy of the smeared computational models, also with coupling to muscle mechanics, is illustrated with simple example, while their applicability is demonstrated on a liver model with tumors present. The last example shows that the introduced methodology is applicable to large biological systems.
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- Milos Kojic
- Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States.,Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia.,Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia.,Faculty of Information Technologies, Belgrade Metropolitan University, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States.,Applied Physics Graduate Program, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States
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- Faculty for Engineering Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States
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Kang J, Tsai CC, Hasegawa H, Morris-Paterson T, Higgins S, Crum W, Gnoni V, Green D, Gunasinghe C, Nesbitt A, Williams S, Milosevic M, Ashkan K, Goadsby P, Leschziner G, Harridge S, Rosenzweig I. The effect of hyper-buoyancy floatation (HBF), a model of simulated microgravity, on sleep and cognitive function in humans. Sleep Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.11.1091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Velec M, Tadic T, Xie J, Moseley J, Patel T, Milosevic M, Fyles A, Han K, Croke J. Deformable Dose Accumulation for Hybrid CBCT-MRI Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy for Cervix Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2019.06.376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Tadic T, Croke J, Xie J, Stanescu T, Letourneau D, Bissonnette J, Breen S, Simeonov A, Dickie C, Hill C, Li W, Ellis C, Winter J, Velec M, Fyles A, Han K, Jaffray D, Milosevic M. In-Room MRI for Adaptive Radiotherapy for Cervical Cancer Using an Integrated MR-Guided Radiation Therapy System. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2019.06.834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Milosevic M. SP-0150 Using functional imaging as a guidance and decision tool in radiotherapy. Radiother Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(19)30570-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Kojic M, Milosevic M, Simic V, Geroski V, Ziemys A, Filipovic N, Ferrari M. Smeared multiscale finite element model for electrophysiology and ionic transport in biological tissue. Comput Biol Med 2019; 108:288-304. [PMID: 31015049 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.03.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2018] [Revised: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/23/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Abstract
Basic functions of living organisms are governed by the nervous system through bidirectional signals transmitted from the brain to neural networks. These signals are similar to electrical waves. In electrophysiology the goal is to study the electrical properties of biological cells and tissues, and the transmission of signals. From a physics perspective, there exists a field of electrical potential within the living body, the nervous system, extracellular space and cells. Electrophysiological problems can be investigated experimentally and also theoretically by developing appropriate mathematical or computational models. Due to the enormous complexity of biological systems, it would be almost impossible to establish a detailed computational model of the electrical field, even for only a single organ (e.g. heart), including the entirety of cells comprising the neural network. In order to make computational models feasible for practical applications, we here introduce the concept of smeared fields, which represents a generalization of the previously formulated multiscale smeared methodology for mass transport in blood vessels, lymph, and tissue. We demonstrate the accuracy of the smeared finite element computational models for the electric field in numerical examples. The electrical field is further coupled with ionic mass transport within tissue composed of interstitial spaces extracellularly and by cytoplasm and organelles intracellularly. The proposed methodology, which couples electrophysiology and molecular ionic transport, is applicable to a variety of biological systems.
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- M Kojic
- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA; Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400, Kragujevac, Serbia; Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400, Kragujevac, Serbia; Belgrade Metropolitan University, Tadeuša Košćuška 63, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- University of Kragujevac, Faculty for Engineering Sciences, Sestre Janic 6, 34000, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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We couple a tumor growth model embedded in a microenvironment, with a bio distribution model able to simulate a whole organ. The growth model yields the evolution of tumor cell population, of the differential pressure between cell populations, of porosity of ECM, of consumption of nutrients due to tumor growth, of angiogenesis, and related growth factors as function of the locally available nutrient. The bio distribution model on the other hand operates on a frozen geometry but yields a much refined distribution of nutrient and other molecules. The combination of both models will enable simulating the growth of a tumor in a whole organ, including a realistic distribution of therapeutic agents and allow hence to evaluate the efficacy of these agents.
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- Raffaella Santagiuliana
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, Italy.
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, Kragujevac, 34000, Serbia
- Belgrade Metropolitan University, Tadeuša Košćuška 63, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, Kragujevac, 34000, Serbia
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- Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie (I2M, CNRS UMR 5295), University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, Kragujevac, 34000, Serbia
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- The Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, Kragujevac, 34000, Serbia
- The Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, Italy
- The Department of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 2a, D-85748, Garching b. München, Germany
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Abdovic S, Cuk M, Cekada N, Milosevic M, Geljic A, Fusic S, Bastic M, Bahtijarevic Z. Predicting posterior urethral obstruction in boys with lower urinary tract symptoms using deep artificial neural network. World J Urol 2018; 37:1973-1979. [DOI: 10.1007/s00345-018-2588-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2018] [Accepted: 11/28/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Milosevic M, Stojanovic D, Simic V, Milicevic B, Radisavljevic A, Uskokovic P, Kojic M. A Computational Model for Drug Release from PLGA Implant. Materials (Basel) 2018; 11:E2416. [PMID: 30501079 PMCID: PMC6316994 DOI: 10.3390/ma11122416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2018] [Revised: 11/18/2018] [Accepted: 11/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Due to the relative ease of producing nanofibers with a core⁻shell structure, emulsion electrospinning has been investigated intensively in making nanofibrous drug delivery systems for controlled and sustained release. Predictions of drug release rates from the poly (d,l-lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) produced via emulsion electrospinning can be a very difficult task due to the complexity of the system. A computational finite element methodology was used to calculate the diffusion mass transport of Rhodamine B (fluorescent drug model). Degradation effects and hydrophobicity (partitioning phenomenon) at the fiber/surrounding interface were included in the models. The results are validated by experiments where electrospun PLGA nanofiber mats with different contents were used. A new approach to three-dimensional (3D) modeling of nanofibers is presented in this work. The authors have introduced two original models for diffusive drug release from nanofibers to the 3D surrounding medium discretized by continuum 3D finite elements: (1) A model with simple radial one-dimensional (1D) finite elements, and (2) a model consisting of composite smeared finite elements (CSFEs). Numerical solutions, compared to experiments, demonstrate that both computational models provide accurate predictions of the diffusion process and can therefore serve as efficient tools for describing transport inside a polymer fiber network and drug release to the surrounding porous medium.
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- Miljan Milosevic
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
- Belgrade Metropolitan University, Tadeuša Košćuška 63, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Karnegijeva 4, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
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- Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Karnegijeva 4, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Karnegijeva 4, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
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Grabovac I, Milosevic M, Mustajbegovic J. Perceived and Experienced Discrimination and Sexual Identity Disclosure of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Patients in Croatia. Eur J Public Health 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/cky212.148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Han K, Welch M, Weiss J, Pintilie M, Fyles T, Milosevic M. An MRI-Based Radiomic Signature for Disease-Free Survival in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.06.222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Schulman D, Milosevic M, Singh P. TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED SUBJECTIVE WELLNESS OBSERVATIONS BY INFORMAL CAREGIVERS: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Philips Research North America
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Ziemys A, Yokoi K, Kai M, Liu YT, Kojic M, Simic V, Milosevic M, Holder A, Ferrari M. Progression-dependent transport heterogeneity of breast cancer liver metastases as a factor in therapeutic resistance. J Control Release 2018; 291:99-105. [PMID: 30332610 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2018.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Revised: 10/11/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Metastatic disease is a major cause of mortality in cancer patients. While many drug delivery strategies for anticancer therapeutics have been developed in preclinical studies of primary tumors, the drug delivery properties of metastatic tumors have not been sufficiently investigated. Therapeutic efficacy hinges on efficient drug permeation into the tumor microenvironment, which is known to be heterogeneous thus potentially making drug permeation heterogeneous, also. In this study, we have identified that 4 T1 liver metastases, treated with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin, have unfavorable and heterogeneous transport of doxorubicin. Our drug extravasation results differ greatly from analogous studies with 4 T1 tumors growing in the primary site. A probabilistic tumor population model was developed to estimate drug permeation efficiency and drug kinetics of liver metastases by integrating the transport and structural properties of tumors and delivered drugs. The results demonstrate significant heterogeneity in metastases with regard to transport properties of doxorubicin within the same animal model, and even within the same organ. These results also suggest that the degree of heterogeneity depends on the stage of tumor progression and that differences in transport properties can define transport-based tumor phenotypes. These findings may have valuable clinical implications by illustrating that therapeutic agents can permeate and eliminate metastases of "less resistant" transport phenotypes, while sparing tumors with more "resistant" transport properties. We anticipate that these results could challenge the current paradigm of drug delivery into metastases, highlight potential caveats for therapies that may alter tumor perfusion, and deepen our understanding of the emergence of drug transport-based therapeutic resistance.
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- A Ziemys
- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, Houston, TX, USA.
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, Houston, TX, USA; Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia; Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, USA
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Milosevic M, Simic V, Milicevic B, Koay E, Ferrari M, Ziemys A, Kojic M. Correction function for accuracy improvement of the Composite Smeared Finite Element for diffusive transport in biological tissue systems. Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 2018; 338:97-116. [PMID: 30555187 PMCID: PMC6292687 DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2018.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Modeling of drug transport within capillaries and tissue remains a challenge, especially in tumors and cancers where the capillary network exhibits extremely irregular geometry. Recently introduced Composite Smeared Finite Element (CSFE) provides a new methodology of modeling complex convective and diffusive transport in the capillary-tissue system. The basic idea in the formulation of CSFE is in dividing the FE into capillary and tissue domain, coupled by 1D connectivity elements at each node. Mass transport in capillaries is smeared into continuous fields of pressure and concentration by introducing the corresponding Darcy and diffusion tensors. Despite theoretically correct foundation, there are still differences in the overall mass transport to (and from) tissue when comparing smeared model and a true 3D model. The differences arise from the fact that the smeared model cannot take into account the detailed non-uniform pressure and concentration distribution in the vicinity of capillaries. We introduced a field of correction function for diffusivity through the capillary walls of smeared models, in order to have the same mass accumulation in tissue as in case of true 3D models. The parameters of the numerically determined correction function are: ratio of thickness and diameter of capillary wall, ratio of diffusion coefficient in capillary wall and surrounding tissue; and volume fraction of capillaries within tissue domain. Partitioning at the capillary wall - blood interface can also be included. It was shown that the correction function is applicable to complex configurations of capillary networks, providing improved accuracy of our robust smeared models in computer simulations of real transport problems, such as in tumors or human organs.
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- M. Milosevic
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
- Belgrade Metropolitan University, Tadeusa Koscuska 63, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, United States
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX 77030
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX 77030
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia
- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX 77030
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35,11000 Belgrade
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Kojic M, Milosevic M, Simic V, Koay EJ, Kojic N, Ziemys A, Ferrari M. Multiscale smeared finite element model for mass transport in biological tissue: From blood vessels to cells and cellular organelles. Comput Biol Med 2018; 99:7-23. [PMID: 29807251 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.05.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 05/19/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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One of the basic and vital processes in living organisms is mass exchange, which occurs on several levels: it goes from blood vessels to cells and organelles within cells. On that path, molecules, as oxygen, metabolic products, drugs, etc. Traverse different macro and micro environments - blood, extracellular/intracellular space, and interior of organelles; and also biological barriers such as walls of blood vessels and membranes of cells and organelles. Many aspects of this mass transport remain unknown, particularly the biophysical mechanisms governing drug delivery. The main research approach relies on laboratory and clinical investigations. In parallel, considerable efforts have been directed to develop computational tools for additional insight into the intricate process of mass exchange and transport. Along these lines, we have recently formulated a composite smeared finite element (CSFE) which is composed of the smeared continuum pressure and concentration fields of the capillary and lymphatic system, and of these fields within tissue. The element offers an elegant and simple procedure which opens up new lines of inquiry and can be applied to large systems such as organs and tumors models. Here, we extend this concept to a multiscale scheme which concurrently couples domains that span from large blood vessels, capillaries and lymph, to cell cytosol and further to organelles of nanometer size. These spatial physical domains are coupled by the appropriate connectivity elements representing biological barriers. The composite finite element has "degrees of freedom" which include pressures and concentrations of all compartments of the vessels-tissue assemblage. The overall model uses the standard, measurable material properties of the continuum biological environments and biological barriers. It can be considered as a framework into which we can incorporate various additional effects (such as electrical or biochemical) for transport through membranes or within cells. This concept and the developed FE software within our package PAK offers a computational tool that can be applied to whole-organ systems, while also including specific domains such as tumors. The solved examples demonstrate the accuracy of this model and its applicability to large biological systems.
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- M Kojic
- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA; Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia; Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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Yap M, Allo G, Cuartero J, Pintilie M, Kamel-Reid S, Murphy J, Mackay H, Clarke B, Fyles A, Milosevic M. Prognostic Significance of Human Papilloma Virus and p16 Expression in Patients with Vulvar Squamous Cell Carcinoma who Received Radiotherapy. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2018; 30:254-261. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2018.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2017] [Revised: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 12/22/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Lukovic J, Han K, Pintilie M, Chaudary N, Hill R, Fyles A, Milosevic M. OC-0149: Intratumoral heterogeneity and hypoxia gene expression signatures in cervix cancer. Radiother Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(18)30459-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Conway J, Felder S, Tang J, Fyles A, Milosevic M, Lukovic J, Han K, Croke J. PO-0811: Patient-reported quality of life in cervical cancer patients treated with definitive chemoradiation. Radiother Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(18)31121-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Lecavalier-Barsoum M, Chaudary N, Thapa P, Larsen M, Pintilie M, Han K, Hill R, Milosevic M. EP-1527: Targeting CXCL12/CXCR4 to enhance the therapeutic ratio during radiochemotherapy for cervix cancer. Radiother Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(18)31836-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Skliarenko J, D'Souza D, Perdrizet J, Ang M, Barbera L, Gutierrez E, Ravi A, Tanderup K, Warde P, Chan K, Isaranuwatchai W, Milosevic M. OC-0076: MR-guided vs CT-guided brachytherapy more effective and less costly in locally advanced cervical cancer. Radiother Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(18)30386-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Hamilton JL, Foxcroft S, Moyo E, Cooke-Lauder J, Spence T, Zahedi P, Bezjak A, Jaffray D, Lam C, Létourneau D, Milosevic M, Tsang R, Wong R, Liu FF. Strategic planning in an academic radiation medicine program. Curr Oncol 2017; 24:e518-e523. [PMID: 29270061 DOI: 10.3747/co.24.3725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Background In this paper, we report on the process of strategic planning in the Radiation Medicine Program (rmp) at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. The rmp conducted a strategic planning exercise to ensure that program priorities reflect the current health care environment, enable nimble responses to the increasing burden of cancer, and guide program operations until 2020. Methods Data collection was guided by a project charter that outlined the project goal and the roles and responsibilities of all participants. The process was managed by a multidisciplinary steering committee under the guidance of an external consultant and consisted of reviewing strategic planning documents from close collaborators and institutional partners, conducting interviews with key stakeholders, deploying a program-wide survey, facilitating an anonymous and confidential e-mail feedback box, and collecting information from group deliberations. Results The process of strategic planning took place from December 2014 to December 2015. Mission and vision statements were developed, and core values were defined. A final document, Strategic Roadmap to 2020, was established to guide programmatic pursuits during the ensuing 5 years, and an implementation plan was developed to guide the first year of operations. Conclusions The strategic planning process provided an opportunity to mobilize staff talents and identify environmental opportunities, and helped to enable more effective use of resources in a rapidly changing health care environment. The process was valuable in allowing staff to consider and discuss the future, and in identifying strategic issues of the greatest importance to the program. Academic programs with similar mandates might find our report useful in guiding similar processes in their own organizations.
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- J L Hamilton
- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
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- Health Industry Management Practice, Schulich School of Business, York University, and
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
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Chan K, Simeonov A, Di Tomasso A, O'Leary G, Filici AL, Rink A, Beiki-Ardakani A, Borg J, Croke J, Fyles T, Han K, Milosevic M. Implementation of Real-Time MR-Guided Interstitial Brachytherapy for Gynecological Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.06.1281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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D'Souza D, Perdrizet J, Skliarenko J, Ang M, Barbera L, Ravi A, Gutierrez E, Tanderup K, Warde P, Chan K, Isaranuwatchai W, Milosevic M. A Cost-Utility Analysis Comparing MR-Guided Brachytherapy to Standard 2D Brachytherapy for Patients With Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer in Ontario, Canada. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.06.558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Gerber R, Han K, Xie J, Jiang H, Beiki-Ardakani A, Fyles T, Milosevic M, Croke J. Patient-Reported Sexual Health After Definitive Chemoradiation Therapy and MR-Guided Brachytherapy for Cervical Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.06.266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Chaudary N, Cheung M, Foltz W, Abdalaty AH, Stewart J, Lindsay P, Siddiqui I, Larsen M, Hill R, Milosevic M, Kim J, Hedley D. Preclinical Development of Targeted Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.06.2464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Pawlicki T, Coffey M, Milosevic M. Incident Learning Systems for Radiation Oncology: Development and Value at the Local, National and International Level. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2017; 29:562-567. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2017.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Revised: 07/06/2017] [Accepted: 07/07/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Kojic M, Milosevic M, Simic V, Koay E, Fleming J, Nizzero S, Kojic N, Ziemys A, Ferrari M. A composite smeared finite element for mass transport in capillary systems and biological tissue. Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 2017; 324:413-437. [PMID: 29200531 PMCID: PMC5703437 DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2017.06.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
One of the key processes in living organisms is mass transport occurring from blood vessels to tissues for supplying tissues with oxygen, nutrients, drugs, immune cells, and - in the reverse direction - transport of waste products of cell metabolism to blood vessels. The mass exchange from blood vessels to tissue and vice versa occurs through blood vessel walls. This vital process has been investigated experimentally over centuries, and also in the last decades by the use of computational methods. Due to geometrical and functional complexity and heterogeneity of capillary systems, it is however not feasible to model in silico individual capillaries (including transport through the walls and coupling to tissue) within whole organ models. Hence, there is a need for simplified and robust computational models that address mass transport in capillary-tissue systems. We here introduce a smeared modeling concept for gradient-driven mass transport and formulate a new composite smeared finite element (CSFE). The transport from capillary system is first smeared to continuous mass sources within tissue, under the assumption of uniform concentration within capillaries. Here, the fundamental relation between capillary surface area and volumetric fraction is derived as the basis for modeling transport through capillary walls. Further, we formulate the CSFE which relies on the transformation of the one-dimensional (1D) constitutive relations (for transport within capillaries) into the continuum form expressed by Darcy's and diffusion tensors. The introduced CSFE is composed of two volumetric parts - capillary and tissue domains, and has four nodal degrees of freedom (DOF): pressure and concentration for each of the two domains. The domains are coupled by connectivity elements at each node. The fictitious connectivity elements take into account the surface area of capillary walls which belongs to each node, as well as the wall material properties (permeability and partitioning). The overall FE model contains geometrical and material characteristics of the entire capillary-tissue system, with physiologically measurable parameters assigned to each FE node within the model. The smeared concept is implemented into our implicit-iterative FE scheme and into FE package PAK. The first three examples illustrate accuracy of the CSFE element, while the liver and pancreas models demonstrate robustness of the introduced methodology and its applicability to real physiological conditions.
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Affiliation(s)
- M. Kojic
- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX 77030
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
- Corresponding author: Milos Kojic, Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX 77030, , phone: 713 441 7355; fax: 713 441 7438
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX 77030
- Applied Physics Graduate Program, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005
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- Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX 77030
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7-117, Houston, TX 77030
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Kiseliovas V, Milosevic M, Kojic M, Mazutis L, Kai M, Liu YT, Yokoi K, Ferrari M, Ziemys A. Tumor progression effects on drug vector access to tumor-associated capillary bed. J Control Release 2017; 261:216-222. [PMID: 28576640 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2017.05.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2017] [Revised: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 05/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Over the last decade, the benefits of drug vectors to treat cancer have been well recognized. However, drug delivery and vector distribution differences in tumor-associated capillary bed at different stages of disease progression are not well understood. To obtain further insights into drug vector distribution changes in vasculature during tumor progression, we combined intra-vital imaging of metastatic tumors in mice, microfluidics-based artificial tumor capillary models, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling. Microfluidic and CFD circulation models were designed to mimic tumor progression by escalating flow complexity and chaoticity. We examined flow of 0.5 and 2μm spherical particles, and tested the effects of hematocrit on particle local accessibility to flow area of capillary beds by co-circulating red blood cells (RBC). Results showed that tumor progression modulated drug vector distribution in tumor-associated capillaries. Both particles shared 80-90% common flow area, while 0.5 and 2μm particles had 2-9% and 1-2% specific flow area, respectively. Interestingly, the effects of hematocrit on specific circulation area was opposite for 0.5 and 2μm particles. Dysfunctional capillaries with no flow, a result of tumor progression, limited access to all particles, while diffusion was shown to be the only prevailing transport mechanism. In view of drug vector distribution in tumors, independent of formulation and other pharmacokinetic aspects, our results suggest that the evolution of tumor vasculature during progression may influence drug delivery efficiency. Therefore, optimized drug vectors will need to consider primary vs metastatic tumor setting, or early vs late stage metastatic disease, when undergoing vector design.
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- Vaidotas Kiseliovas
- The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA; Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Research and Development Center for Bioengineering BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA; Research and Development Center for Bioengineering BioIRC, Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
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- The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
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- The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
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- The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
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- The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA.
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Kojic M, Milosevic M, Simic V, Koay EJ, Kojic N, Ziemys A, Ferrari M. Extension of the composite smeared finite element (CSFE) to include lymphatic system in modeling mass transport in capillary systems and biological tissue. J Serbian Soc Comput Mech 2017; 11:108-119. [PMID: 29782608 PMCID: PMC5957499 DOI: 10.24874/jsscm.2017.11.02.09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
We have recently introduced a composite smeared finite element (CSFE) to model gradient-driven mass transport in biological tissue. The transport from capillary system is smeared in a way to transform 1D transport to a continuum, while the tissue is considered as a continuum. Coupling between the smeared pressure and concentration field is achieved through 1D connectivity elements assigned at each FE node. Here we extend our smeared model to include the lymphatic system. The lymphatic vessels are treated in a way analogous to the capillaries, by introducing the corresponding Darcy and diffusion tensors. New connectivity elements are added. In the numerical examples we demonstrate accuracy of the smeared model and the effects of the lymph on the pressure and concentration within extracellular space are evaluated, assuming that there is no transport to the cell space.
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Affiliation(s)
- Milos Kojic
- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia
- Belgrade Metropolitan University, Tadeuša Košćuška 63, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Bioengineering Research and Development Center BioIRC Kragujevac, Prvoslava Stojanovica 6, 3400 Kragujevac, Serbia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030
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- Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Houston Methodist Research Institute, The Department of Nanomedicine, 6670 Bertner Ave., R7 117, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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