Integrin activation--the importance of a positive feedback.

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：:Spatial interactions are key determinants in the dynamics of many epidemiological and ecological systems; therefore it is important to use spatio-temporal models to estimate essential parameters. However, spatially-explicit data sets are rarely available; moreover, fitting spatially-explicit models to such data can be...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Filipe JA,Otten W,Gibson GJ,Gilligan CA

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:Biological invasion is an important area of research in mathematical biology and more so if it concerns species which are vectors for diseases threatening the public health of large populations. That is certainly the case for Aedes aegypti and the dengue epidemics in South America. Without the prospect of an effective...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Takahashi LT,Maidana NA,Ferreira WC Jr,Pulino P,Yang HM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain the correlation dimension and entropy from an experimental time series we derive estimators for these quantities together with expressions for their variances using a maximum likelihood approach. The validity of these expressions is supported by Monte Carlo simulations. We illustrate the use of the estimator...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Olofsen E,Degoede J,Heijungs R

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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：:Over the last 25 years, reforms in undergraduate biology education have transformed the way biology is taught at many institutions of higher education. This has been fueled in part by a burgeoning discipline-based education research community, which has advocated for evidence-based instructional practices based on fin...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Aikens ML

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:National Bureau of Statistics of China reports that the incidence of schistosomiasis has been increasing in recent years. To study dynamic behaviors of schistosomiasis transmission, based on practical experience of staff in Anhui Institute of Schistosomiasis, a mathematical schistosomiasis model with reinfection of re...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Qi L,Xue M,Cui JA,Wang Q,Wang T

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study Eigen's quasispecies model in the asymptotic regime where the length of the genotypes goes to [Formula: see text] and the mutation probability goes to 0. A limiting infinite system of differential equations is obtained. We prove convergence of trajectories, as well as convergence of the equilibrium solutions....

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Dalmau J

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：: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：:The tumor promoter, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), affects the processing of fluid that enters a cell from the ambient medium. Previous work showed that marker accumulates to a higher level in PMA-treated than in untreated cells. Since PMA also affects the physical activity of the membrane and stimulates the n...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Heckman CA,Runyeon CS,Wade JG,Seubert S

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advances in genetics and biochemistry that have taken place over the last 10 years led to significant advances in experimental and clinical immunology. In turn, this has led to the development of new mathematical models to investigate qualitatively and quantitatively various open questions in immunology. In this s...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Eftimie R,Gillard JJ,Cantrell DA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discoveries in ecological stoichiometry have indicated that food quality in terms of the phosphorus/carbon (P/C) ratio affects consumers whether the imbalance involves insufficient or excess nutrients. This phenomenon is called the "stoichiometric P/C knife-edge." In this study, we develop and analyze a produce...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Asik L,Kulik J,Long KR,Peace A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For epidemic models, it is shown that fatal infectious diseases cannot drive the host population into extinction if the incidence function is upper density-dependent. This finding holds even if a latency period is included and the time from infection to disease-induced death has an arbitrary length distribution. Howev...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Farrell AP,Collins JP,Greer AL,Thieme HR

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradable scaffolds represent a promising solution for tissue engineering of damaged or degenerated articular cartilage which due to its avascular nature, is characterized by a low self-repair capacity. To estimate the articular cartilage regeneration process employing degradable scaffolds, we propose a mathematical ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Yun A,Lee SH,Kim J

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:We consider a minimalist model for the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), assuming that residual fertility can occur in the sterile male population. Taking into account that we are able to get regular measurements from the biological system along the control duration, such as the size of the wild insect population, we st...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Aronna MS,Dumont Y

更新日期：2020-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifiability concerns finding which unknown parameters of a model can be estimated, uniquely or otherwise, from given input-output data. If some subset of the parameters of a model cannot be determined given input-output data, then we say the model is unidentifiable. In this work, we study linear compartment models...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Meshkat N,Sullivant S,Eisenberg M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a mesoscopic scale chemotaxis model for traveling wave phenomena which is induced by food metric. The organisms of this simplified kinetic model have two discrete velocity modes, [Formula: see text] and a constant tumbling rate. The main feature of the model is that the speed of organisms is constant [For...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Choi SH,Kim YJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:We consider a kinetic law of mass action model for Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) signaling, focusing on the induction of the RAS-MAP kinase pathway via GRB2 binding. Our biologically simple model suffers a combinatorial explosion in the number of differential equations required to simulate the system. In addition to ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Gaffney EA,Heath JK,Kwiatkowska MZ

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:A system of differential equations for the control of tumor growth cells in a cycle nonspecific chemotherapy is analyzed. Spontaneously acquired drug resistance is taken into account, and a criterion for the selection of chemotherapeutic treatment is used. This criterion purports to describe the possibility of improve...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Costa MI,Boldrini JL

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a complex phenomenon, and the sheer variation in behaviour across different types renders it difficult to ascertain underlying biological mechanisms. Experimental approaches frequently yield conflicting results for myriad reasons, and mathematical modelling of cancer is a vital tool to explore what we cannot...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Grimes DR,Fletcher AG

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider organisms which use a renewal strategy such as run-tumble when moving in space, for example to perform chemotaxis in chemical gradients. We derive a diffusion approximation for the motion, applying a central limit theorem due to Anscombe for renewal-reward processes; this theorem has not previously been ap...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Thygesen UH

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two possible dangers of an extensive varicella vaccination program are more varicella (chickenpox) cases in adults, when the complication rates are higher, and an increase in cases of zoster (shingles). Here an age-structured epidemiologic-demographic model with vaccination is developed for varicella and zoster. Param...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Schuette MC,Hethcote HW

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have programmed a Monte Carlo simulation of the Q-cycle model of electron transport in cytochrome b(6)f complex, an enzyme in the photosynthetic pathway that converts sunlight into biologically useful forms of chemical energy. Results were compared with published experiments of Kramer and Crofts (Biochim. Biophys. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Schumaker MF,Kramer DM

更新日期：2011-09-01 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