Coreceptor switching in HIV-1 subtype B and subtype C.

abstract：:We formulate a mathematical model for food collection and production of workers and nymphs in 2 species of mound building termites. We maximise the number of nymphs (reproductives) produced by each colony over its lifetime with respect to the proportion of eggs that hatch as nymphs as opposed to workers. The results p...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cameron DA,Ivers DJ,Evans TA,Myerscough MR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that many G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are bound together forming dimers. The implications of dimerisation for cellular signalling outcomes, and ultimately drug discovery and therapeutics, remain unclear. Consideration of ligand binding and signalling via receptor dimers is therefore required ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： White C,Bridge LJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A semi-empirical model applicable to the flow of blood and other particulate suspensions through narrow tubes has been developed. It envisages a central core of blood surrounded by a wall layer of reduced hematocrit. With the help of this model the wall layer thickness and extent of plug flow may be calculated using p...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Das RN,Seshadri V

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine Babesiosis (BB) is a tick borne parasitic disease with worldwide over 1.3 billion bovines at potential risk of being infected. The disease, also called tick fever, causes significant mortality from infection by the protozoa upon exposure to infected ticks. An important factor in the spread of the disease is the...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Friedman A,Yakubu AA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we show that a one-dimensional model of the blood flow across the lungs can reproduce the evolution of a bolus versus the time. Solving the differential equation governing the bolus concentration in the framework of this model, we determine the solution which fulfills Gaussian initial boundary conditions...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Le Sech C,Capderou A

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the existence of oscillatory dynamics and multiple steady-state flow rates in a network with a simple topology and in vivo microvascular blood flow constitutive laws. Unlike many previous analytic studies, we employ the most biologically relevant models of the physical properties of whole blood. Through...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Karst NJ,Storey BD,Geddes JB

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the role of space in ecological communities where each species produces a certain type of resource and has varying abilities to exploit the resources produced by its own species and by the other species, we carry out a comparative study of an interacting particle system and its mean-field approx...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Kang Y,Lanchier N

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Premised on relatively simple assumptions, mathematical models like those of Monod, Pirt or Droop inadequately explain the complex transient behavior of microbial populations. In particular, these models fail to explain many aspects of the dynamics of a Tetrahymena pyriformis-Escherichia coli community. In this study ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Jaworska JS,Hallam TG,Schultz TW

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The asymptotes and transition points of the net CO2 assimilation (A/Ci) rate curves of the steady-state Farquhar-von Caemmerer-Berry (FvCB) model for leaf photosynthesis of C3 plants are examined in a theoretical study, which begins from the exploration of the standard equations of hyperbolae after rotating the coordi...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Miranda-Apodaca J,Marcos-Barbero EL,Morcuende R,Arellano JB

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we consider a game-theoretic model of multilevel selection in which individuals compete based on their payoff and groups also compete based on the average payoff of group members. Our focus is on multilevel social dilemmas: games in which individuals are best off cheating, while groups of individuals do best whe...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cooney DB

更新日期：2020-05-30 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：:Developing a quantitative science of sustainability requires bridging mathematical concepts from fields contributing to sustainability science. The concept of substitutability is central to sustainability but is defined differently by different fields. Specifically, economics tends to define substitutability as a marg...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Fenichel EP,Zhao J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present a model that explains the prepatterning of lymphatic vessel morphology in collagen gels. This model is derived using the theory of two phase rubber material due to Flory and coworkers and it consists of two coupled fourth order partial differential equations describing the evolution of the co...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Roose T,Fowler AC

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population management using artificial gene drives (alleles biasing inheritance, increasing their own transmission to offspring) is becoming a realistic possibility with the development of CRISPR-Cas genetic engineering. A gene drive may, however, have to be stopped. "Antidotes" (brakes) have been suggested, but have ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Girardin L,Calvez V,Débarre F

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper a general deterministic discrete-time metapopulation model with a finite number of habitat patches is analysed within the framework of adaptive dynamics. We study a general model and prove analytically that (i) if the resident populations state is a fixed point, then the resident strategy with no migrati...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Parvinen K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial outbreaks of bacteria are well documented. Based on these incidents, and the heavy usage of antibiotics in hospitals, it has been assumed that antibiotic resistance evolves in hospital environments. To test this assumption, we studied resistance phenotypes of bacteria collected from patient isolates at a co...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Seigal A,Mira P,Sturmfels B,Barlow M

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Marine birds and mammals move between various habitats during the day as they engage in behaviors related to resting, sleeping, preening, feeding, and breeding. The per capita rates of movement between these habitats, and hence the habitat occupancy dynamics, often are functions of environmental variables such as tide...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Henson SM,Hayward JL,Damania SP

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:A mathematical model (Kliemann, W. 1987. Bull. math. Biol. 49, 135-152.) that predicts the quantitative branching pattern of dendritic tree was evaluated using the apical and basal dendrites of rat hippocampal neurons. The Wald statistic for chi 2-test was developed for the branching pattern of dendritic trees and for...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Carriquiry AL,Ireland WP,Kliemann W,Uemura E

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:We study the emergence of collective spatio-temporal objects in biological systems by representing individually the elementary interactions between their microscopic components. We use the immune system as a prototype for such interactions. The results of this detailed explicit analysis are compared with the tradition...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Louzoun Y,Solomon S,Atlan H,Cohen IR

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:The coordinated beating of motile cilia is responsible for ovum transport in the oviduct, transport of mucus in the respiratory tract, and is the basis of motility in many single-celled organisms. The beating of a single motile cilium is achieved by the ATP-driven activation cycles of thousands of dynein molecular mot...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Yang X,Dillon RH,Fauci LJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical control model for the transmission dynamics of tuberculosis (TB) in South Korea is developed on the basis of the reported active-TB and relapse-TB incidence data. In this work, optimal control theory is used to propose optimal TB prevention and control strategy and rearrange the government TB budget for...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Choi S,Jung E

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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