Cancer Stem Cell Plasticity as Tumor Growth Promoter and Catalyst of Population Collapse

Figure 5

(a) Average ± SD number of days until the right boundary of 5-well plate is reached by cancer stem cell for different probabilities of plasticity event (). (c) Simulation snapshots at the moment when first cancer stem cell reaches the right boundary for different probabilities of plasticity event (). Percentages above each well indicate the fraction of cancer stem cells within each well.

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