Analysis of individual cell trajectories in lattice-gas cellular automaton models for migrating cell populations.

abstract：:We incorporate a vector-bias term into a malaria-transmission model to account for the greater attractiveness of infectious humans to mosquitoes in terms of differing probabilities that a mosquito arriving at a human at random picks that human depending on whether he is infectious or susceptible. We prove that transcr...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Chamchod F,Britton NF

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we study quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. Quorum sensing is a process where bacteria monitor their population density through the release of extra-cellular signalling molecules. The presence of these molecules affects gene modulation leading to changes in behaviour such as the release ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Vaughan BL Jr,Smith BG,Chopp DL

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hodgkin and Huxley equations have served as the benchmark model in electrophysiology since 1950s. But it suffers from four major drawbacks. Firstly, it is only phenomenological not mechanistic. Secondly, it fails to exhibit the all-or-nothing firing mechanism for action potential generation. Thirdly, it lacks a th...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Deng B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein fold can be viewed as a self-avoiding walk in certain lattice model, and its contact map is a graph that represents the patterns of contacts in the fold. Goldman, Istrail, and Papadimitriou showed that a contact map in the 2D square lattice can be decomposed into at most two stacks and one queue. In the term...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Guo QH,Sun LH,Wang J

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：:The mutation process is introduced into the colored coalescent theory. The mutation process can be viewed as an independent Poisson process running on the colored genealogical random tree generated by the colored coalescent process, with the edge lengths of the random tree serving as the time scale for the mutation pr...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Tian JP,Lin XS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper reviews the work of Kermack and McKendrick on the development of simple mathematical models of the transmission dynamics of viral and bacterial infectious agents within population of hosts. The focus of attention is centred on the notion of a threshold density of susceptible hosts to trigger an epidemic and ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Anderson RM

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:In the field of biological regulation, models dictated by experimental work are usually complex networks comprising intertwined feedback loops. In this paper the biological roles of individual positive loops (multistationarity, differentiation) and negative loops (homeostasis, with or without oscillations, buffering o...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Thomas R,Thieffry D,Kaufman M

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal heterogeneity is increasingly being observed in ecological populations and has long been suspected as an explanation for observations of non-Gaussian dispersal. Recent empirical and theoretical studies have begun to confirm this. Using an integro-difference model, we allow an individual's diffusivity to be d...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Stover JP,Kendall BE,Nisbet RM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have been done using networks to represent the spread of infectious diseases in populations. For diseases with exposed individuals corresponding to a latent period, an SEIR model is formulated using an edge-based approach described by a probability generating function. The basic reproduction number is computed...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Alota CP,Pilar-Arceo CPC,de Los Reyes V AA

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic chemotherapy is one of the main anticancer treatments used for most kinds of clinically diagnosed tumors. However, the efficacy of these drugs can be hampered by the physical attributes of the tumor tissue, such as tortuous vasculature, dense and fibrous extracellular matrix, irregular cellular architecture, ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Karolak A,Rejniak KA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical evolutionary game theory (EGT) focuses on competition among phenotypes while assuming asexual transmission of these phenotypes to the next generation. However, phenotypic selection and sexual recombination are not necessarily mutually reinforcing in populations with sexual reproduction. In particular, it has...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Fishman MA

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Farmers frequently decide where to locate the colonies of their domesticated eusocial bees, especially given the following mutually exclusive scenarios: (i) there are limited nectar and pollen sources within the vicinity of the apiary that cause competition among foragers; and (ii) there are fewer pollinators compared...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gavina MK,Rabajante JF,Cervancia CR

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in fluorescent labeling of cells as measured by flow cytometry have allowed for quantitative studies of proliferating populations of cells. The investigations (Luzyanina et al. in J. Math. Biol. 54:57-89, 2007; J. Math. Biol., 2009; Theor. Biol. Med. Model. 4:1-26, 2007) contain a mathematical model with fluo...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Banks HT,Sutton KL,Thompson WC,Bocharov G,Roose D,Schenkel T,Meyerhans A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body size of organisms spans 24 orders of magnitude, and metabolic rate and life span present comparable differences across species. This article shows that this variation can be explained in terms of evolutionary entropy, a statistical parameter which characterizes the robustness of a population, and describes the un...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Demetrius L,Legendre S,Harremöes P

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical models are useful for providing a framework for integrating data and gaining insights into the static and dynamic behavior of complex biological systems such as networks of interacting genes. We review the dynamic behaviors expected from model gene networks incorporating common biochemical motifs, and we ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Smolen P,Baxter DA,Byrne JH

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies, we used a mathematical model of the thick ascending limb (TAL) to investigate nonlinearities in the tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) loop. That model does not represent other segments of the nephron, the water, and NaCl transport along which may impact fluid flow rate and NaCl transport along the T...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Layton AT,Edwards A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some organisms maintain a battery of defensive strategies against their exploiters (predators, parasites or parasitoids), while others fail to employ a defence that seems obvious. In this paper, we shall investigate the circumstances under which defence strategies might be expected to evolve. Brood parasites and their...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Britton NF,Planqué R,Franks NR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop an age-structured ODE model to investigate the role of intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) in averting malaria-induced mortality in children, and its related cost in promoting the spread of antimalarial drug resistance. IPT, a malaria control strategy in which a full curative dose of an antimalarial med...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Manore CA,Teboh-Ewungkem MI,Prosper O,Peace A,Gurski K,Feng Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we develop and extend a previous model of cell deformations, initially proposed to describe the dynamical behaviour of round-shaped cells such as keratinocytes or leukocytes, in order to take into account cell pseudopodial dynamics with large amplitude membrane deformations such as those observed in fibr...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Stéphanou A,Chaplain MA,Tracqui P

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many aquatic organisms detect the presence of moving objects in their environment, such as predators, by sensing the hydrodynamic disturbances the movements produce. The resultant water flow is readily detectable by stationary organisms, but free-swimming organisms are carried with the surrounding water and may not de...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Takagi D,Hartline DK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cell migration is an essential process in development, how cells reach their final destination is not well understood. Secreted molecules are known to have a migratory effect, but it remains unclear whether such molecules act as directional guidance cues or as motility regulators. There is potential to use si...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cai AQ,Landman KA,Hughes BD

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Cell motility is an essential phenomenon in almost all living organisms. It is natural to think that behavioral or shape changes of a cell bear information about the underlying mechanisms that generate these changes. Reading cell motion, namely, understanding the underlying biophysical and mechanochemical processes, i...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Coskun H,Coskun H

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:To analyze signals measured from human blood flow in the time-frequency domain, we used the wavelet transform which gives good time resolution for high-frequency components and good frequency resolution for low-frequency components. Five characteristic frequency peaks, corresponding to five almost periodic rhythmic ac...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Bracic M,Stefanovska A

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Two algorithms for the efficient identification of segment neighborhoods are presented. A segment neighborhood is a set of contiguous residues that share common features. Two procedures are developed to efficiently find estimates for the parameters of the model that describe these features and for the residues that de...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Auger IE,Lawrence CE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00