Culture analysis and external interaction models of mycelial growth.

abstract：:Turing patterns can be observed in reaction-diffusion systems where chemical species have different diffusion constants. In recent years, several studies investigated the effects of noise on Turing patterns and showed that the parameter regimes, for which stochastic Turing patterns are observed, can be larger than the...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cao Y,Erban R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell polarization is an important part of the response of eukaryotic cells to stimuli, and forms a primary step in cell motility, differentiation, and many cellular functions. Among the important biochemical players implicated in the onset of intracellular asymmetries that constitute the early phases of polarization a...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Walther GR,Marée AF,Edelstein-Keshet L,Grieneisen VA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates fluid flow and elastic deformation in tissues that are drained by the primary lymphatic system. A model is formulated based on the Rossi hypothesis that states that the primary lymphatic valves, which are formed by overlapping endothelial cells around the circumferential lining of lymphatic cap...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Heppell C,Roose T,Richardson G

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we introduce and study a model for electrical activity of cardiac membrane which incorporates only an inward and an outward current. This model is useful for three reasons: (1) Its simplicity, comparable to the FitzHugh-Nagumo model, makes it useful in numerical simulations, especially in two or three sp...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Mitchell CC,Schaeffer DG

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary game dynamics of two strategies in finite population is studied by continuous probabilistic approach. Besides frequency dependent selection, mutation was also included in this study. The equilibrium probability density functions of abundance, expected time to extinction or fixation were derived and their ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gao M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the dynamics of invasive weeds by partial differential equation (PDE) modelling and applying dynamical system and phase portrait techniques. We begin by applying the method of characteristics to a preexisting PDE model of the spreading of T. fluminensis, an invasive weed which has been responsible for nativ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ramaj T

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Using optimal control theory as the basic theoretical tool, we investigate the efficacy of different antibiotic treatment protocols in the most exacting of circumstances, described as follows. Viewing a continuous culture device as a proxy for a much more complex host organism, we first inoculate the device with a sin...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Peña-Miller R,Lähnemann D,Schulenburg H,Ackermann M,Beardmore R

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a multi-scale computer simulator of cancer progression at the tumoral level, from avascular stage growth, through the transition from avascular to vascular growth (neo-vascularization), and into the later stages of growth and invasion of normal tissue. We use continuum scale reaction-diffusion equations for...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Zheng X,Wise SM,Cristini V

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct reciprocity is a chief mechanism of mutual cooperation in social dilemma. Agents cooperate if future interactions with the same opponents are highly likely. Direct reciprocity has been explored mostly by evolutionary game theory based on natural selection. Our daily experience tells, however, that real social a...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Masuda N,Ohtsuki H

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) is used to obtain quantitative information about molecular diffusion and binding kinetics at both cell and tissue levels of organization. FRAP models have been proposed to estimate the diffusion coefficients and binding kinetic parameters of species for a variety of bi...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lin L,Othmer HG

更新日期：2017-03-01 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

abstract：:We introduce here a gene evolution model which is an extension of the time-continuous stochastic IDIS model (Lèbre and Michel in J. Comput. Biol. Chem. 34:259-267, 2010) to sequence length. This new IDISL (Insertion Deletion Independent of Substitution based on sequence Length) model gives an analytical expression of ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lèbre S,Michel CJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An algorithm for computing the linear noise approximation (LNA) of the reaction-diffusion master equation (RDME) is developed and tested. The RDME is often used as a model for biochemical reaction networks. The LNA is derived for a general discretization of the spatial domain of the problem. If M is the number of chem...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lötstedt P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model is presented for the steps in the elongation process, and the steady-state elongation rate as a function of the amino acid concentrations is found. In addition, the reset sub-process of the elongation process is modeled. The rate of elongation of peptide chains is found to be a function of the con...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Heyd A,Drew DA

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle times are vital parameters in cancer research, and short cell cycle times are often related to poor survival of cancer patients. A method for experimental estimation of cell cycle times, or doubling times of cultured cancer cell populations, based on addition of paclitaxel (an inhibitor of cell division) ha...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Daukste L,Basse B,Baguley BC,Wall DJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a deterministic continuum model for mixed-culture biofilms. A crucial aspect is that movement of one species is affected by the presence of the other. This leads to a degenerate cross-diffusion system that generalizes an earlier single-species biofilm model. Two derivations of this new model are given. One,...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Rahman KA,Sudarsan R,Eberl HJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonlinear response of the simplest irreversible Michaelis-Menten enzyme is considered. In the context of metabolic networks, i.e. in vivo, the enzyme is subject to sustained, frequently time-dependent, input fluxes that keep the system out of equilibrium. The connection between the fluxes and the response is inves...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Torralba AS,Rodríguez Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrins mediate cell adhesion and are essential receptors for the development and functioning of multicellular organisms. Integrin activation is known to require both ligand and talin binding and to correlate with cluster formation but the activation mechanism and precise roles of these processes are not yet resolve...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Iber D,Campbell ID

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transcription is a central cellular process and is stochastic in nature. The stochasticity has been studied in real cells and in theory, but often for the transcription activated by a single signaling pathway at steady-state. As transcription of many genes is involved with multiple pathways, we investigate how th...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Sun Q,Tang M,Yu J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model, based on the principles of continuum mechanics, is presented for the analysis of cell-velocity fields within wool follicles. The model requires specification of three follicle characteristics in the form of spatially varying fields: viscosity, cell density and cell production rate. The viscosity is introduced...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Louie K,Hall AJ,Gandar PW

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the dynamics of biomass in a marine ecosystem. A stochastic process is defined in which organisms undergo jumps in body size as they catch and eat smaller organisms. Using a systematic expansion of the master equation, we derive a deterministic equation for the macroscopic dynamics, which we ca...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Datta S,Delius GW,Law R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cycles in biological populations have been shown to arise from enemy-victim systems, delayed density dependence, and maternal effects. In an initial effort to model the year-to-year dynamics of natural populations of entomopathogenic nematodes and their insect hosts, we find that a simple, nonlinear, mechanistic model...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Dugaw CJ,Hastings A,Preisser EL,Strong DR

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:Preserving a system's viability in the presence of diversity erosion is critical if the goal is to sustainably support biodiversity. Reduction in population heterogeneity, whether inter- or intraspecies, may increase population fragility, either decreasing its ability to adapt effectively to environmental changes or f...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Kareva I,Morin B,Castillo-Chavez C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insertion-deletion model developed by Thorne, Kishino and Felsenstein (1991, J. Mol. Evol., 33, 114-124; the TKF91 model) provides a statistical framework of two sequences. The statistical alignment of a set of sequences related by a star tree is a generalization of this model. The known algorithm computes the pro...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Miklós I

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

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：:A rather complete model of the gluconeogenic pathway was used, with the known separate pools of mitochondrial and cytosolic oxalacetate, malate and aspartate. The fumarase, malate dehydrogenase and glutamate oxalacetate transaminase reactions were assumed to be isotopically actively reversible, but none at isotopic eq...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Rognstad R

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:In Xenopus and Drosophila, the nucleocytoplasmic ratio controls many aspects of cell-cycle remodeling during the transitory period that leads from fast and synchronous cell divisions of early development to the slow, carefully regulated growth and divisions of somatic cells. After the fifth cleavage in sea urchin embr...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ciliberto A,Tyson JJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumour suppressor gene, p53, plays an important role in tumour development. Under low levels of oxygen (hypoxia), cells expressing wild-type p53 undergo programmed cell death (apoptosis), whereas cells expressing mutations in the p53 gene may survive and express angiogenic growth factors that stimulate tumour vasc...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gammack D,Byrne HM,Lewis CE

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00