Spatiotemporal diffusion as early warning signal for critical transitions in spatial tumor-immune system with stochasticity

Complex dynamical systems have tipping points and exhibit nonlinear dynamics. It is difficult to predict and prevent the onset and progression of the tumors, mainly due to the complexity of interactions between tumor growth and tumor-immune cells involved. Moreover, previous models were based on the...

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Main Authors: Zhiqin Ma, Yuhui Luo, Chunhua Zeng, Bo Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2022-04-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.023039
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author Zhiqin Ma
Yuhui Luo
Chunhua Zeng
Bo Zheng
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Yuhui Luo
Chunhua Zeng
Bo Zheng
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description Complex dynamical systems have tipping points and exhibit nonlinear dynamics. It is difficult to predict and prevent the onset and progression of the tumors, mainly due to the complexity of interactions between tumor growth and tumor-immune cells involved. Moreover, previous models were based on the influence of the zero-dimensional systems and did not consider the spatiotemporal fluctuation in the tumor microenvironment. We here extend the previous model to a two-dimensional system and employ spatial early warning signals to study the spatially extended tumor-immune system with stochasticity. On the one hand, we obtain the stationary probability density of the system under the mean-field approximation assumption. It is found that the health state gets more and more stable than the disease state as the noise level increases when the system has a bistable state, and the system goes from health to disease state through a bistable region as the growth rate increases. On the other hand, we present a spatiotemporal diffusion coefficient indicator to predict upcoming critical transitions. It is shown that a rising spatiotemporal diffusion coefficient obtained from the spatial snapshot data can be an effective indicator for predicting upcoming critical transitions. Anticipating critical transitions in the spatial tumor-immune system with stochasticity can be greatly helpful to prevent disease onset and progression, which may intercept abrupt shifts from health to disease state.
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spelling doaj.art-74f3eaae6bfe4d21a9d74a040ea19f502024-04-12T17:19:53ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Research2643-15642022-04-014202303910.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.023039Spatiotemporal diffusion as early warning signal for critical transitions in spatial tumor-immune system with stochasticityZhiqin MaYuhui LuoChunhua ZengBo ZhengComplex dynamical systems have tipping points and exhibit nonlinear dynamics. It is difficult to predict and prevent the onset and progression of the tumors, mainly due to the complexity of interactions between tumor growth and tumor-immune cells involved. Moreover, previous models were based on the influence of the zero-dimensional systems and did not consider the spatiotemporal fluctuation in the tumor microenvironment. We here extend the previous model to a two-dimensional system and employ spatial early warning signals to study the spatially extended tumor-immune system with stochasticity. On the one hand, we obtain the stationary probability density of the system under the mean-field approximation assumption. It is found that the health state gets more and more stable than the disease state as the noise level increases when the system has a bistable state, and the system goes from health to disease state through a bistable region as the growth rate increases. On the other hand, we present a spatiotemporal diffusion coefficient indicator to predict upcoming critical transitions. It is shown that a rising spatiotemporal diffusion coefficient obtained from the spatial snapshot data can be an effective indicator for predicting upcoming critical transitions. Anticipating critical transitions in the spatial tumor-immune system with stochasticity can be greatly helpful to prevent disease onset and progression, which may intercept abrupt shifts from health to disease state.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.023039
spellingShingle Zhiqin Ma
Yuhui Luo
Chunhua Zeng
Bo Zheng
Spatiotemporal diffusion as early warning signal for critical transitions in spatial tumor-immune system with stochasticity
Physical Review Research
title Spatiotemporal diffusion as early warning signal for critical transitions in spatial tumor-immune system with stochasticity
title_full Spatiotemporal diffusion as early warning signal for critical transitions in spatial tumor-immune system with stochasticity
title_fullStr Spatiotemporal diffusion as early warning signal for critical transitions in spatial tumor-immune system with stochasticity
title_full_unstemmed Spatiotemporal diffusion as early warning signal for critical transitions in spatial tumor-immune system with stochasticity
title_short Spatiotemporal diffusion as early warning signal for critical transitions in spatial tumor-immune system with stochasticity
title_sort spatiotemporal diffusion as early warning signal for critical transitions in spatial tumor immune system with stochasticity
url http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.023039
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