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Paine, I., Chauviere, A., Landua, J., Sreekumar, A., Cristini, V., Rosen, J., & Lewis, M. T. (2016). A Geometrically-Constrained Mathematical Model of Mammary Gland Ductal Elongation Reveals Novel Cellular Dynamics within the Terminal End Bud. PLOS Computational Biology, 12, e1004839. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004839
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Paine, Ingrid, Arnaud Chauviere, John Landua, Amulya Sreekumar, Vittorio Cristini, Jeffrey Rosen, and Michael T. Lewis. “A Geometrically-Constrained Mathematical Model of Mammary Gland Ductal Elongation Reveals Novel Cellular Dynamics within the Terminal End Bud.” Edited by Alexandre V Morozov. PLOS Computational Biology 12 (April 2016): e1004839.
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Paine, Ingrid, et al. “A Geometrically-Constrained Mathematical Model of Mammary Gland Ductal Elongation Reveals Novel Cellular Dynamics within the Terminal End Bud.” PLOS Computational Biology, edited by Alexandre V Morozov, vol. 12, Public Library of Science (PLoS), Apr. 2016, p. e1004839, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004839.
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@article{paine2016a,
title = {A Geometrically-Constrained Mathematical Model of Mammary Gland Ductal Elongation Reveals Novel Cellular Dynamics within the Terminal End Bud},
year = {2016},
month = apr,
journal = {PLOS Computational Biology},
pages = {e1004839},
publisher = {Public Library of Science (PLoS)},
volume = {12},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004839},
author = {Paine, Ingrid and Chauviere, Arnaud and Landua, John and Sreekumar, Amulya and Cristini, Vittorio and Rosen, Jeffrey and Lewis, Michael T.},
editor = {Morozov, Alexandre V},
month_numeric = {4}
}
Mathematics is often used to model biological systems. In mammary gland development, mathematical modeling has been limited to acinar and branching morphogenesis and breast cancer, without reference to normal duct formation. We present a model of ductal elongation that exploits the geometrically-constrained shape of the terminal end bud (TEB), the growing tip of the duct, and incorporates morphometrics, region-specific proliferation and apoptosis rates. Iterative model refinement and behavior analysis, compared with biological data, indicated that the traditional metric of nipple to the ductal front distance, or percent fat pad filled to evaluate ductal elongation rate can be misleading, as it disregards branching events that can reduce its magnitude. Further, model driven investigations of the fates of specific TEB cell types confirmed migration of cap cells into the body cell layer, but showed their subsequent preferential elimination by apoptosis, thus minimizing their contribution to the luminal lineage and the mature duct.