Modeling Tumor Vasculature: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Level Aspects and Implications

The model describes amoeboid cell motion, cellular rearrangements, and pressure inside the tissue. The CPM was introduced by Graner and Glazier Graner and Glazier, ; Glazier and Graner, for modeling cell sorting according to the differential adhesion hypothesis of Steinberg , and was applied thereafter to various phenomena in vertebrate biological development, including convergent extension Zajac et al. Its proven utility in describing normal embryonic development, makes the CPM a natural choice for modeling pathological developmental mechanisms in cancer.

The spin-copy attempt is accepted with probability 1 if it would decrease the value of a globally defined Hamiltonian, H , or with Boltzmann probability if it would increase the value of H:. In the originally proposed model the Hamiltonian function consists of a volume constraint term responsible for maintaining an approximately constant cell volume and a surface energy term responsible for cell-cell adhesion properties:. One MCS is defined as N elementary steps, or copy-attempts, where N is the number of lattice sites in the grid.

This choice ensures that on average all sites are updated in every MCS, decoupling the system size and the number of copy-attempts needed to update the whole configuration. The basic CPM has been extended with numerous cell behaviors relevant for tumor biology. To represent growth factors Jiang et al.

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To this end, an additional energy bias is incorporated in the Hamiltonian at the time of copying Savill and Hogeweg, Cell division can be triggered when certain conditions are met, such as the cell reaches a certain size Jiang et al. Further extensions make it possible to model, e. The extracellular matrix can also be modeled in varying levels of detail. We will discuss these extensions in more detail as they occur in the tumor models reviewed below.

The outgrowth of primary, avascular tumors originating from a small, proliferative population of cells is a first step toward tumor development, and it forms a basis for more elaborate models of tumor development. Models of avascular tumors aim to reproduce the growth characteristics and spatial organization of avascular tumors from first principles, including cellular division rates, and local accessibility of nutrients.

Laird showed that many avascular tumor growth curves are well characterized by Gompertz growth curves Gompertz, The number of cells in the tumor, N t , at time t is given by the formula:. Because of the limited supply of nutrients from the surrounding stroma via diffusion, avascular tumors in vitro follow Gompertz-like, saturated growth curves, while the diffusion depth of the nutrient stratifies the aggregate into a necrotic core, a quiescent layer, and a proliferative rim Folkman and Hochberg, One of the first simulations that reproduced Gompertz growth from first principles using the CPM was reported by Stott et al.

Their three-dimensional model represents stromal cells, proliferating tumor cells, quiescent tumor cells, and necrotic cells Figure 1 A. The model is based on the experimental observation that the volume of proliferating cells in an in vitro tumor is constant throughout growth McElwain and Pettet, The thickness of this outer proliferative layer is denoted by D q , and the first necrotic cells appear at approximately 4 D q distance from the outer surface of the aggregate McElwain and Pettet, This property is used to reconstruct the nutrient levels within the aggregate: The level of nutrients at depth D q , is a constant N q.

The nutrient level determines the growth rate of proliferative cells in the model, as. A Cross section of the 3D avascular tumor model of Stott et al. Black cells in the middle of the tumor are necrotic, surrounded by quiescent cells light gray. The outer layer of the tumor consists of proliferating cells dark gray. The tumor is embedded in stroma, represented by stromal white cells.

Image reproduced from Stott et al. B Cross section of the 3D avascular tumor model of Jiang et al. The figure shows the three layers of avascular tumors. The stroma is modeled as a continuum, depicted in blue. Image reproduced from Jiang et al. C Avascular tumors with a homogeneous population of tumor cells and mixed cancer stem cells and transient amplifying cancer cells Sottoriva et al.

Homogeneous tumors produce spherical aggregates, whereas a heterogeneous population gives rise to a rugged surface, enhancing metastasis. The lower images show the distribution of a couple of clones that illustrates the growth dynamics within the aggregates. Image reproduced from Sottoriva et al. Necrotic cells further from the interface decrease their target volume faster.

Proliferating cells grow and divide when reaching a certain volume-to-surface ratio. Simulations of the model correctly reproduce the growth of avascular tumors: The final size of the aggregate is maintained by the balance of cell proliferation at the tumor edge, and the decay of necrotic cells at the center.

In this state cells are gradually shifted from the outer rim toward the necrotic core. The model also reproduces the stratified, spatial organization of avascular tumors, with a proliferative rim, a quiescent layer, and a necrotic core. However, this is not unexpected, since the nutrient, that determines the cell types, is an explicit function of the distance from the tumor—stroma interface.

This is a good approximation, if the nutrient diffuses uniformly from the stroma into the tumor. A more complete model of tumor spheroids was presented by Jiang et al. They simulate the diffusion of nutrients, waste, growth factors, and inhibitory factors. They use a simplified, intracellular model of the cell cycle based on a Boolean network in each cell to determine if a cell is proliferative or quiescent. The secreted growth factors and inhibitory factors are assumed to regulate the progression through the cell cycle by altering the activation state of proteins within the Boolean network.

A set of partial-differential equations describes the secretion, diffusion and uptake of the nutrients, waste products, growth factors, and inhibitory factors, as:. Proliferative and quiescent cells produce waste, and consume nutrients and growth factors, while necrotic cells do not consume any substance. Necrotic and quiescent cells produce inhibitory factors.

Cells metabolize nutrients through anaerobic glycolysis and respiration, producing lactate as waste. They assumed that metabolic activity determines cell survival: Cell shedding is introduced in the model by allowing mitotic cells to detach from the aggregate at a constant rate at the tumor surface. These cells are then taken out from the simulation.

With these assumptions, the proliferative rim, the quiescent layer, and necrotic core emerge in the model Figure 1 B. The model of Jiang et al. The combined width of the proliferative rim and the quiescent layer remains constant during growth, whereas the radius of the necrotic core increases linearly in time, which the simulation accurately reproduce. Based on these results the authors propose that the size of the necrotic core is governed by the accumulation of wastes and depletion of nutrients, and is independent of the cell cycle. Interestingly, the inclusion of a simplified model of the cell cycle accurately reproduced cell phase distributions in tumor spheroids, and the growth arrest characteristic of avascular tumors.

Since the authors reproduced growth dynamics without any mechanically restricting extracellular microenvironment, they conclude that such biophysical constraints are not necessarily crucial for the growth arrest of the observed tumor aggregates. A higher level of heterogeneity within tumors was suggested by the cancer stem cell hypothesis Reya et al. The hypothesis assumes that only a small fraction of tumor cells, the cancer stem cells CSC , are capable of unlimited reproduction, while the main tumor mass consists of cells with only limited replication potential.

It is still not clear where the CSCs originate from: In this view, tumors are inherently heterogeneous with respect to proliferation potential. The hypothesis is still debated, but supportive evidence is accumulating: Visvader and Lindeman list several experimental attempts to isolate CSCs from solid tumors, by propagating and passaging cells.

Two cell types are represented in their model: CSCs, that are allowed to divide indefinitely, and differentiated cells, that divide only a limited number of times. Cells are killed at random with a constant rate. Confirming their previous result from a cellular automata model Sottoriva et al.

Tumors in which all cells have infinite reproductive potential grow into a spherical shape. In comparison, tumors in which only CSCs can reproduce indefinitely, tend to assume a more irregular shape Figure 1 C: In this view, the tumor is an aggregate of self-metastases Enderling et al. The authors argue that the emergent irregular surface of the whole aggregate is reminiscent of invasive tumor growth. To explore if and how the presence of a CSC population within a tumor aggregate affects the emergence of treatment resistance, Sottoriva et al.

Tumor therapy is implemented by killing a percentage of cells at a specific time, that results in new growth space around the survivors, lowering the selection pressure within the aggregate, and leading to a second expansion. They observe that with CSCs, tumors are able to develop a larger variety of methylation patterns after regrowth. In tumors without CSCs all cells contribute to repopulation equally, with fewer divisions per cell, and therefore lower chance of mutation accumulations.

Accumulated mutations can help tumor cells to escape local fitness maxima, leading to a faster evolution, and possibly giving rise to more resistant cells. These simulations indicate how seemingly effective treatments may induce a more resistant or invasive phenotype. To quantitatively explore the reason behind growth acceleration, they present a CPM similar to the model of Sottoriva et al. They calibrate the probability of symmetric CSC divisions using CSC ratios in in vitro and in vivo glioblastoma populations.

The resistance of CSCs to radio therapy is incorporated in the model, and calibrated using dose dependent survival measurements after acute irradiation. When comparing acute and fractionated irradiation response, the authors found that the relative increase in CSCs after fractionated treatment cannot be explained solely by radioresistance of CSCs. These effects remain to be tested experimentally.

A key issue in cancer, not considered by the above models, is tissue homeostasis Anderson et al. In fact, explaining dynamical homeostasis of a tissue in which cells are continuously renewed in a balanced way, may be a far more challenging problem than modeling uncontrolled growth. Initiation of tumor growth then amounts to the loss of tissue homeostasis. Although not specially targeted at modeling cancer, an abstract model by Tripodi et al.

They argue that metabolic exchange is one of the main regulators of tissue renewal and robustness of developmental patterns. They implemented a growing heterogeneous population of cells that are interdependent on one another for metabolic purposes. The nutrients that the cells consume are metabolized to an internal energy used for maintenance, division, or chemotactic movement. The relative rates of these budget terms are determined by a set of parameters, and are the same for all cells within one simulation.

Different cell types in the model produce different nutrients that can be used by one other cell type, creating a cross-feeding system. Cells can also change types during the simulation. Two main budget parameters control the behavior of the population: A system with high consumption and low maintenance rates generates a proliferative population similar to cancer, whereas lower consumption and higher maintenance rate yields a population in dynamic homeostasis. Whether the uncontrolled growth of the high consumption, low maintenance metabolic phenotype predicted by the model of Tripodi relates to the reprograming of cellular energy metabolism in cancer as seen in the Warburg effect Levine and Puzio-Kuter, , will be an interesting topic of future theoretical and experimental research.

To enable their sustained growth, tumors must attract new blood vessels and remodel the vasculature in a process called angiogenesis. The blood vessels provide nutrients and oxygen to the tumor and remove waste from the vicinity of tumors.

Several authors have looked at the interaction between growing tumors and the vasculature. In this section we will review a cellular Potts model studying the growth dynamics of vascular tumors. Models focusing on the mechanisms of angiogenesis for example: The blood vessels, modeled as a network of elastically connected endothelial cells, provide oxygen to the tumor at a constant rate. Oxygen is considered as the only nutrient that restricts tumor growth, assuming that other nutrients are either depleted at the same locations as the oxygen, or are not limiting.

Tumor cells in the model are considered either normal, hypoxic or necrotic, depending on their metabolic state, determined by oxygen levels in their microenvironment. The growth rate of normal and hypoxic tumor cells thus depends on the oxygen levels:. Once the cells reach doubling volume, they divide.

Hypoxic cells secrete VEGF-A, which attracts endothelial cells through chemotaxis, and induces their growth.

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Necrotic cells decrease their volume at a constant rate until they completely disappear. The authors identified distinct phases of tumor growth with tumors capable and incapable of inducing blood vessel growth. In both cases, tumors grow exponentially in the initial regime until the development of hypoxic areas Figure 2 A. After that, the growth rates of angiogenic tumors and non-angiogenic tumors start to diverge. In non-angiogenic tumors, necrotic cells appear shortly after hypoxic cells, creating the three layers typical of avascular tumors.

Cells protrude from the spherical tumor towards the vessels due to oxygen inhomogeneities, resulting in vessel rupture and more access to oxygen. The tumor continues to grow slowly along the existing vasculature, producing a cylindrical aggregate Figure 2 B. Neovascular cells form a peri-tumor network, but do not penetrate the tumor itself.

The spherical angiogenic tumor gradually assumes a cylindrical shape, similar to the avascular tumor. Due to the intense neovascularization at the tumor surface, however, cells have sufficient oxygen supply, so they do not follow the preexisting vasculature. This allows the tumor to grow from cylindrical shape into a broader sheet, a paddle-like structure Figure 2 C. Vascular tumor growth of Shirinifard et al. A Number of normal proliferative tumor cells in the non-angiogenic red curve and angiogenic black curve model, showing different stages of development. B Cylindrical shaped non-angiogenic tumor.

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Tumor cells are shown in green, the vasculature is red. C Paddle-shaped angiogenic tumor. Neovascular endothelial cells are shown in purple. Images reproduced from Shirinifard et al. One intriguing behavior arising from the model is the effect of random cell motility within the tumor. Increased motility results in more mixing, therefore it allows more cells to access higher oxygen concentrations at the tumor surface.

As oxygen concentration is linked to cell growth, variations in cell size will be smaller with increased motility. However, since the inhomogeneity in cell growth drives the transition from spherical to cylindrical shape, increased cell motility results in a less invasive tumor. This contra-intuitive mechanism is a good example of how computer simulations can help in elucidating mechanisms of cancer. The model neglects blood flow, interstitial pressure, the extracellular matrix, nutrients, and a large part of cell signaling. Despite these simplifications, Shirinifard et al. We will next review models investigating another general structure in the stroma besides the vasculature: This heterogeneous spatial network provides mechanical scaffold for the tissues.

In order to grow out of the aggregate and invade the host, tumor cells have to be able to migrate through the ECM. ECM representation in models vary. Some authors model the ECM surrounding the tumor as a homogeneous substance, assuming that the size of ECM components is significantly smaller than the cell size.

Others argue that structures within the matrix, such as collagen fibers, reach and typically exceed the size of the cells, therefore they represent the ECM as a heterogeneous substance. Studies in the following sections consider the interface between the tumor and the stroma. Cells have been described to move toward higher concentrations of ECM, a property termed haptotaxis. This behavior might naturally play a role in tumor invasion, therefore it has been in the focus of more computational studies. In this model the system is filled with ECM initially, and it is assumed to be exponentially degraded in the vicinity of cells.

Cells divide with a division probability increasing with time and with increasing cell-ECM contact. This assumption is based on the observation that cells divide more often if they have more contact with the ECM Huang and Ingber, Tumor invasion with homogeneous and heterogeneous ECM.

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Image reproduced from Turner and Sherratt with permission. Image reproduced from Rubenstein and Kaufman with permission. In this model, the tumor front invades deeper into the ECM if the cells have higher haptotactic sensitivity, or if they secrete proteolytic enzymes at a higher rate.

Interestingly, increasing both the haptotactic sensitivity and the secretion rate of the proteolytic enzymes simultaneously leads to more effective invasion than invasion driven by either of these mechanisms alone. Counterintuitively, the model suggests that an increase in cell proliferation results in a slower invasion. The reason for this behavior is found in the mechanism of invasion: As the haptotactic effect is highest at the very edge of the front, the back of the front and the main tumor mass is exposed to a smaller haptotactic gradient.

Due to cell-cell adhesion, these cells pull the invading front back and thus slow the invasion. Cell proliferation creates an increasing tumor mass and keeps the cells at the front connected for a longer time. In a follow-up paper, Turner et al. Based on experimental observations Koli and Arteaga, ; Nakata et al. The model framework of Turner and colleagues has been extended by Scianna and Preziosi , to include intracellular regulation of cell motility, based on extracellular growth factor concentrations. In accord with the findings of Turner and Sherratt , Scianna and Preziosi point out that therapies aiming at increasing cell-cell adhesion between tumor cells, or loosening adhesions between tumor cells and the ECM, lead to a more compact tumor aggregate, that is easier to remove surgically.

Inhibiting the matrix degrading ability of tumor cells, or inhibiting their ability to haptotax also resulted in less disperse invasion fronts in the model of Scianna and Preziosi These results were obtained by simulating invasion of a homogeneous environment. They simulated in vitro ovarian cancer transmigration essays, where single tumor cells or a group of tumor cells invade a connected layer of mesothelial cells. They show that depending on the cohesion of the tumor cells, invasion occurs at multiple or single loci.

In both their in vitro experiments and model simulations, Giverso and colleagues show that individual cells can penetrate, or intercalate, the monolayer without damaging it. A group of tumor cells, however, disrupts the monolayer as they invade. Using their model, they demonstrate that the mode of invasion — group or individual — depends on the relative adhesion between tumor cells and tumor cells and the mesothelial cells.

In the previous section we described studies of tumor invasion due to cell-ECM interactions. They show that tumor starvation low nutrient flux promotes tumor invasion, and cell—stroma adhesion surface tension defines the width of invading clusters of cells. In their model matrix digestion releases a nutrient or growth factor required for cell growth. Cell growth is an increasing function of available substrate, and cells divide when reaching doubling size. Cell death is not considered in the model. Tumor metabolism efficiency is implicitly included in the model by controlling substrate uptake and cell growth rate independently.

The authors find that if nutrient supply is abundant, e. In this case cell-matrix surface tension or cell-cell adhesion strength does not affect tumor morphology. If the nutrient becomes more limiting, the tumor assumes a lobed, branched shape, and becomes sensitive to the cell-matrix surface tension parameter: As the substrate cannot reach deep areas inside the tumor, growth slows down closer to the tumor center, resulting in deep groves, in a mechanism related to the classic diffusion-limited aggregation model Witten and Sander, This effect is counteracted by the surface tension which smoothens regions of high positive curvature.

Therefore the substrate penetration length set by substrate consumption and the capillary length set by surface tension together define the surface morphology. Thus they suggest that anti-angiogenic tumor therapies, which aim to reduce the nutrient supply of tumors, might actually induce invasive, metastatic tumor phenotypes.

Although the scale of the extracellular matrix building blocks are negligible when compared with the size of the cell, the matrix can still contain structures comparable to or even larger than a cell. These not only include inhomogeneities in matrix density, but also anisotropic structures such as collagen filaments. Rubenstein and Kaufman explore avascular tumor growth using a model including both a homogeneous and a filamentous extracellular matrix component, representing diffusible matrix proteins and collagen fibers Figure 3 B.

Based on the angiogenesis model of Bauer et al. Cells strongly adhere to filamentous ECM, and also require this contact for cell division. Cells in the model of Rubenstein and Kaufman consume a non-diffusing nutrient and produce waste, producing stratified avascular tumor growth. Cell division is controlled by explicit contact with the ECM: This results in a proliferating rim around the tumor.

Due to a large difference in cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, cells are shed at the rim, even in the absence of collagen fibers similar to the model of Jiang et al. Cells elongate and invade along fibers in the vicinity of the tumor surface, producing a growth similar to a Gompertz growth. Due to the depletion of nutrients and constant proliferation at the edge, however, the tumor diameter does not stabilize, as expected in a Gompertzian growth.

In their two-dimensional in vitro experiments Rubenstein and Kaufman observed that tumor cells spread fastest at intermediate collagen concentrations, an effect that their computational model reproduces. Their simulations suggest that this behavior is only valid for shorter collagen fibers, where the density of collagen has to be high in order to form long, contiguous fibers. As collagen density increases and the network is interconnected, cells invade along the fibers.

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