Modeling an angiogenesis treatment after a myocardial infarction

A serious complication that patients face after a heart attack is the formation of scar tissue at the damaged part of the heart. This scar leads to stiffening of the damaging region, and thereby it requires more perfomance of the heart muscle, which leads to fatigue and hence to failure and thereby causing immediate death of the patient. To...

A Mathematical Model for Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis

Mathematical modelling of angiogenesis and contraction occuring during wound healing in soft tissues

Wound contraction and angiogenesis are two important processes in the proliferative stage of wound healing. In this thesis a novel mathematical model on angiogenesis is presented. Furthermore this new angiogenesis model is coupled with an already existing model for wound contraction.