Mathematical Models and Immune Cell Biology /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Molina-París, Carmen. (Editor ), Lythe, Grant. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Thymocyte development
  • A review of mathematical models for T cell receptor triggering and antigen discrimination
  • Dynamic tuning of T cell receptor specificity by co-receptors and costimulation
  • T cell activation and function: role of signal strength
  • The cyton model for lymphocyte proliferation and differentiation
  • Modeling itravital two-photon data of lymphocyte migration and interaction
  • Modeling lymphocyte dynamics in vivo
  • Continuous-time birth and death processes: diversity maintenance of naïve T cells in the periphery
  • Multivariate competition processes: a model for two competing T cell clonotypes
  • Stochastic modeling of T Cell homeostasis for two competing clonotypes via the master equation
  • Dendritic cell migration in the intestinal tract
  • Reassessing germinal center reaction concepts
  • B cell strategies of Ag recognition in a stratified immune system
  • Dynamics of Peripheral regulatory and effector T cells competing for antigen presenting cells
  • Mathematical models of the role of IL-2 in the interactions between helper and regulstory CD4+ T cells
  • A Physicist’s approach to immunology
  • Timescales of the adaptive immune response
  • Using mathematical models to explore the role of cytoxic T lymphocytes in HIV infection
  • Viral immunity and persistence
  • Index.