Mathematical modelling of the sporulation-initiation network in Bacillus subtilis revealing the dual role of the putative quorum-sensing signal molecule PhrA.

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：:The multifractal analysis of binary images of DNA is studied in order to define a methodological approach to the classification of DNA sequences. This method is based on the computation of some multifractality parameters on a suitable binary image of DNA, which takes into account the nucleotide distribution. The binar...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cattani C,Pierro G

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing fishing pressures having brought several stocks to the brink of collapse, there is a need for developing efficient harvesting methods that account for factors beyond merely yield or profit. We consider the dynamics and management of a stage-structured fish stock. Our work is based on a consumer-resourc...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Meng X,Lundström NL,Bodin M,Brännström Å

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichloroethylene (TCE) is an industrial chemical and an environmental contaminant. TCE and its metabolites may be carcinogenic and affect human health. Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models that differ in compartmentalization are developed for TCE metabolism in humans, and the focus of this investigatio...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Yokley KA,Evans MV

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Cardiac and neural systems share common features of intrinsic oscillation in some cells as well as the ability to propagate excitation. One theoretical approach to study such systems is to develop realistic models for the tissue. This involves first developing detailed ionic "Hodgkin-Huxley"-type models of individual ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Glass L,Shrier A

更新日期：2015-05-01 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

abstract：:The propagation of fire-diffuse-fire Ca(2+) waves through a three-dimensional rectangular domain is considered. The domain is infinite in extent in the direction of propagation but with lateral barriers to diffusion which contain Ca(2+) pumps. The Ca(2+) concentration profile due to the firing of a release site (spark...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lemon G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use a mathematical model to determine the factors affecting the delayed or rare coreceptor switch in HIV-1 subtype C infected individuals. The model takes into account the two main target cells for the CXCR4-tropic and CCR5-tropic virus and includes the the lytic and non-lytic immune responses. Computer-based simul...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Mugwagwa T,Witten G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we present a pedagogical tumour growth example, in which we apply calibration and validation techniques to an uncertain, Gompertzian model of tumour spheroid growth. The key contribution of this article is the discussion and application of these methods (that are not commonly employed in the field of can...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Collis J,Connor AJ,Paczkowski M,Kannan P,Pitt-Francis J,Byrne HM,Hubbard ME

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The culmination of the morphogenesis of the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum involves complex cell movements which transform a mound of cells into a globule of spores on a slender stalk. We show that cyclic AMP signalling and differential adhesion, combined with cell differentiation and slime production, ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Marée AF,Hogeweg P

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:The comprehension of activities and functions of complex brain structures requires, among other things, information on simultaneous activities in several regions. Results reported in the literature using multi(micro/macro)electrode recordings or imaging techniques provide incomplete information due either to the small...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ventriglia F

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we formulate a multi-patch multi-species model in which the per-capita emigration rate of one species depends on the density of some other species. We then focus on Turing instability to examine if and when this cross-emigration response has crucial effects. We find that the type of interaction matters g...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Huang Y,Diekmann O

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：: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：: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：:A dynamic model for cell differentiation, where cells with internal chemical reaction dynamics interact with each other and replicate was studied. It led to spontaneous differentiation of cells and determination, as discussed in the isologous diversification. The following features of the differentiation were obtained...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Furusawa C,Kaneko K

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new geometric buildup algorithm for the solution of the distance geometry problem in protein modeling, which can prevent the accumulation of the rounding errors in the buildup calculations successfully and also tolerate small errors in given distances. In this algorithm, we use all instead of a subset of ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Sit A,Wu Z,Yuan Y

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous models of the renal concentrating mechanism employ ideal approximations of solution thermodynamics for membrane transport calculation. In three-dimensional models of the renal medulla, predicted urine concentrations reach levels where these idealized approximations begin to break down. In this paper we derive...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Wang X,Wexler AS,Marsh DJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although imatinib is an effective treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), and nearly all patients treated with imatinib attain some form of remission, imatinib does not completely eliminate leukemia. Moreover, if the imatinib treatment is stopped, most patients eventually relapse (Cortes et al. in Clin. Canc...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Paquin D,Kim PS,Lee PP,Levy D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The well-known formula for the final size of an epidemic was published by Kermack and McKendrick in 1927. Their analysis was based on a simple susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model that assumes exponentially distributed infectious periods. More recent analyses have established that the standard final size formula...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ma J,Earn DJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model for the plant-pollinator-robber interaction is studied to understand the factors leading to the widespread occurrence and stability of such interactions. In the interaction, a flowering plant provides resource for its pollinator and the pollinator has both positive and negative effects on the plan...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Wang Y,DeAngelis DL,Holland JN

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

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：:Analytical methods for predicting and exploring the dynamics of stochastic, spatially interacting populations have proven to have useful application in epidemiology and ecology. An important development has been the increasing interest in spatially explicit models, which require more advanced analytical techniques tha...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Filipe JA,Gibson GJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:Bursting electrical activity is ubiquitous in excitable cells such as neurons and many endocrine cells. The technique of fast/slow analysis, which takes advantage of time scale differences, is typically used to analyze the dynamics of bursting in mathematical models. Two classes of bursting oscillations that have been...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Teka W,Tsaneva-Atanasova K,Bertram R,Tabak J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a theory for host seeking decisions in mosquitoes that explicitly considers the tradeoffs mosquitoes face in allocation to somatic and gametic function. Specifically, we consider conditions under which mosquitoes should seek out nectar and blood hosts upon encountering host odours. Results from development ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Roitberg BD,Friend WG

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously investigated basic model (System B) for the study of signaling morphogen gradient formation that allows for reversible binding of morphogens (aka ligands) with signaling receptors, degradation of bound morphogens and diffusion of unbound morphogens is extended to include the effects of membrane-bound non-...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lander AD,Nie Q,Wan FY

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell migration plays an important role in physiology and pathophysiology. It was observed in the experiments that cells, such as fibroblast, leukocytes, and cancer cells, exhibit a wide variety of migratory behaviors, such as persistent random walk, contact inhibition of locomotion, and ordered behaviors. To identify ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Hassan AR,Biel T,Umulis DM,Kim T

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00