Conflicting objectives in chemotherapy with drug resistance.

abstract：:This paper is devoted to the investigation of the effects of periodic drug treatment on a standard within-host virus model. We first introduce the basic reproduction ratio for the model, and then show that the infection free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable, and the disease eventually disappears if R0<1, ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Wang Z,Zhao XQ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses that infect bacteria, i.e., bacteriophage or 'phage,' are increasingly considered as treatment options for the control and clearance of bacterial infections, particularly as compassionate use therapy for multi-drug-resistant infections. In practice, clinical use of phage often involves the application of multi...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Li G,Leung CY,Wardi Y,Debarbieux L,Weitz JS

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of the Fitch method for reconstructing ancestral states on ultrametric phylogenetic trees is studied. Two recurrence relations for computing the accuracy are given here. Using these relations, we analyze the convergence of the accuracy of the Fitch method for reconstructing the root state on a complete bi...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Zhang L,Shen J,Yang J,Li G

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxorubicin treatment outcomes for non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) are mathematically modelled and computationally analyzed. The NHL model includes a tumor structure incorporating mature and immature vessels, vascular structural adaptation and NHL cell-cycle kinetics in addition to Doxorubicin pharmacokinetics (PK) and ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ribba B,Marron K,Agur Z,Alarcón T,Maini PK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum aggregate after starvation in a wavelike manner in response to periodic pulses of cyclic AMP (cAMP) secreted by cells which behave as aggregation centers. In addition to autonomous oscillations, the cAMP signaling system that controls aggregation is also capable of excitable behavi...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Goldbeter A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian kidney consumes a large amount of energy to support the reabsorptive work it needs to excrete metabolic wastes and to maintain homeostasis. Part of that energy is supplied via the metabolism of glucose. To gain insights into the transport and metabolic processes in the kidney, we have developed a detaile...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Chen Y,Fry BC,Layton AT

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of sexual dimorphism have been used extensively to predict the social organization and ecology of animal and human populations. There is, however, no universally accepted measure of phenotypic differences between the sexes. Most indices of sexual dimorphism fail to incorporate all of the information contained...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ipiña SL,Durand AI

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper studies a predator-prey fishery model which incorporates the independent harvesting strategies and nonlinear impact of an anthropogenic toxicant. Both fish populations are harvested with different harvesting efforts, and the cases for the presence and non-presence of harvesting effort are discussed. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ang TK,Safuan HM,Sidhu HS,Jovanoski Z,Towers IN

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier work a model of the autocrine and paracrine pathways of tumor growth control was developed (Michelson and Leith. 1991. Autocrine and paracrine growth factors in tumor growth. Bull. math. Biol. 53, 639-656). The target population, a generic tumor, was modeled as a single, homogeneous population using the ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Michelson S,Leith JT

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that in problems featuring slow passage through a Hopf bifurcation (dynamic Hopf bifurcation) the transition to large-amplitude oscillations may not occur until the slowly changing parameter considerably exceeds the value predicted from the static Hopf bifurcation analysis (temporal delay effect...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bilinsky LM,Baer SM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a numerical method for estimating optimal parameters in a mathematical model of the within-host dynamics of malaria infection. The model consists of a quasilinear system of partial differential equations. Convergence theory for the computed parameters is provided. Following this analysis, we present several...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Thibodeaux JJ,Schlittenhardt TP

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules (MTs) are protein filaments found in all eukaryotic cells which are crucial for many cellular processes including cell movement, cell differentiation, and cell division. Due to their role in cell division, they are often used as targets for chemotherapy drugs used in cancer treatment. Experimental studies...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Honoré S,Hubert F,Tournus M,White D

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coalescent models of evolution account for incomplete lineage sorting by specifying a species tree parameter which determines a distribution on gene trees, and consequently, a site pattern probability distribution. It has been shown that the unrooted topology of the species tree parameter of the multispecies coalescen...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Long C,Kubatko L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collective dynamics of migrating cell populations drive key processes in tissue formation and maintenance under normal and diseased conditions. Collective cell behavior at the tissue level is typically characterized by considering cell density patterns such as clusters and moving cell fronts. However, there are also i...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Mente C,Voss-Böhme A,Deutsch A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We address the observation that, in some cases, patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) are cleared of HCV when super-infected with the hepatitis A virus (HAV). We hypothesise that this phenomenon can be explained by the competitive exclusion principle, including the action of the immune system, and show th...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Amaku M,Coutinho FA,Chaib E,Massad E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small populations at risk of extinction due to threshold or competitive exclusion have a vested interest in rapid growth. Taking chance of survival into account for diploid populations, Fisher's theorem predicts a sex ratio favoring females under certain circumstances. Theoretical consideration of competitive exclusio...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Johnson SD

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop the mathematical machinery for the construction of an algebraic-combinatorial model using Petri nets to construct an oriented matroid representation of biochemical pathways. For demonstration purposes, we use a model metabolic pathway example from the literature to derive a general biochemical reaction netw...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Oliveira JS,Bailey CG,Jones-Oliveira JB,Dixon DA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The normal process of dermal wound healing fails in some cases, due to fibro-proliferative disorders such as keloid and hypertrophic scars. These types of abnormal healing may be regarded as pathologically excessive responses to wounding in terms of fibroblastic cell profiles and their inflammatory growth-factor media...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Olsen L,Sherratt JA,Maini PK

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new model for laser-induced retinal damage. Our treatment is prompted by the failure of the traditional approach to accurately describe the image size dependence of laser-induced retinal injuries and by a recently reported study which demonstrated that laser injuries to the retina might not appear for up...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Till SJ,Till J,Milsom PK,Rowlands G

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A staged-progression HIV model is formulated and used to investigate the potential impact of an imperfect vaccine. The vaccine is assumed to have several desirable characteristics such as protecting against infection, causing bypass of the primary infection stage, and offering a disease-altering therapeutic effect (so...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gumel AB,McCluskey CC,van den Driessche P

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a companion paper (Lof et al., in Bull. Math. Biol., 2008), we describe a spatio-temporal model for insect behavior. This model includes chemical information for finding resources and conspecifics. As a model species, we used Drosophila melanogaster, because its behavior is documented comparatively well. We divide ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： de Gee M,Lof ME,Hemerik L

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When two strings of symbols are aligned it is important to know whether the observed number of matches is better than that expected between two independent sequences with the same frequency of symbols. When strings are of different lengths, nulls need to be inserted in order to align the sequences. One approach is to ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Rinsma I,Hendy M,Penny D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the global stability of a class of models for in-vivo virus dynamics that take into account the Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte immune response and display antigenic variation. This class includes a number of models that have been extensively used to model HIV dynamics. We show that models in this class are globally a...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Souza MO,Zubelli JP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In special coordinates (codon position-specific nucleotide frequencies), bacterial genomes form two straight lines in 9-dimensional space: one line for eubacterial genomes, another for archaeal genomes. All the 348 distinct bacterial genomes available in Genbank in April 2007, belong to these lines with high accuracy....

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gorban AN,Zinovyev AY

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic spines grow as a consequence of the formation of F-actin filaments at the spine head. The dynamics of F-actin in the spine head upon excitation of N-methy-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors has recently been investigated experimentally, but there is no quantitative account of how these dynamic changes occur upon ac...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bennett MR,Farnell L,Gibson WG

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinct electrophysiological phenotypes are exhibited by biological cells that have differentiated into particular cell types. The usual approach when simulating the cardiac electrophysiology of tissue that includes different cell types is to model the different cell types as occupying spatially distinct yet coupled ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bowler LA,Gavaghan DJ,Mirams GR,Whiteley JP

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To help manage the fluctuations inherent in fish populations scientists have argued for both an ecosystem approach to management and the greater use of marine reserves. Support for reserves includes empirical evidence that they can raise the spawning biomass and mean size of exploited populations, increase the abundan...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Grafton RQ,Kompas T,Lindenmayer D

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium that is responsible for a wide range of infections in humans. Colonies employ quorum sensing (QS) to coordinate gene expression, including for virulence factors, swarming motility and complex social traits. The QS signalling system of P. aeruginosa is known to involv...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Alfiniyah C,Bees MA,Wood AJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection in humans causes a chronic infection of CD4+ T cells, and is associated with various disease outcomes, among them with the development of adult T-cell leukemia (ATL). The T-cell dynamics after HTLV-I infection can be described in a mathematical model with coupl...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Stilianakis NI,Seydel J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera is an acute gastro-intestinal infection that affects millions of people throughout the world each year, primarily but not exclusively in developing countries. Because of its public health ramifications, considerable mathematical attention has been paid to the disease. Here we consider one neglected aspect of c...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Kobe J,Pritchard N,Short Z,Erovenko IV,Rychtář J,Rowell JT

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00