Metabolic symbiosis between oxygenated and hypoxic tumour cells: An agent-based modelling study.
Deregulated metabolism is one of the hallmarks of cancer.It is well-known that tumour cells tend to metabolize glucose via glycolysis even when oxygen is available and mitochondrial respiration is functional.However, the lower energy efficiency of aerobic glycolysis with respect to mitochondrial respiration makes this behaviour, namely the Warburg