Proliferation and competition in discrete biological systems.

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：: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：:Chemical reactions are discrete, stochastic events. As such, the species' molecular numbers can be described by an associated master equation. However, handling such an equation may become difficult due to the large size of reaction networks. A commonly used approach to forecast the behaviour of reaction networks is t...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： López-Caamal F,Marquez-Lago TT

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaecoepidemic models generalize metapopulation systems, combining local population dynamics with inter-patch migration coupled with an epidemic proliferation. A resource-consumer model is introduced with an ecosystem composed by two patches, in which consumers can freely move. A disease affects resources of the seco...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Moulin T,Perasso A,Venturino E

更新日期：2020-07-07 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：: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：: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：:In this paper, we introduce multiscale persistent functions for biomolecular structure characterization. The essential idea is to combine our multiscale rigidity functions (MRFs) with persistent homology analysis, so as to construct a series of multiscale persistent functions, particularly multiscale persistent entrop...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Xia K,Li Z,Mu L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We derive point and interval estimates for an urban population of green tree frogs (Hyla cinerea) from capture-mark-recapture field data obtained during the years 2006-2009. We present an infinite-dimensional least-squares approach which compares a mathematical population model to the statistical population estimates ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Ackleh AS,Carter J,Deng K,Huang Q,Pal N,Yang X

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first major outbreak reported on the island Yap in 2007, the Zika virus spread has alerted the scientific community worldwide. Zika is an arbovirus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes; particularly in Central and South America, the main vector is the same mosquito that transmits dengue and chikungunya, Aedes aeg...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Baca-Carrasco D,Velasco-Hernández JX

更新日期：2016-11-01 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 stochastic evolutionary dynamics of two strategies given by 2x 2 matrix games is studied in finite populations. We focus on stochastic properties of fixation: how a strategy represented by a single individual wins over the entire population. The process is discussed in the framework of a random walk with site depend...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Antal T,Scheuring I

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main challenges in systems biology is the establishment of the metabolome: a catalogue of the metabolites and biochemical reactions present in a specific organism. Current knowledge of biochemical pathways as stored in public databases such as KEGG, is based on carefully curated genomic evidence for the pre...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Félix L,Rosselló F,Valiente G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time-dependent surface coverage of antigen-antibody complexes for a sensor in which antigens are bound to surface immobilized antibodies is determined analytically. Assuming a reversible first order reaction between the antigens and antibodies, a model is derived describing the dynamical response of the sensor. Th...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Geurts BJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of present mathematical models for biological activity consider just the molecular structure. In the present article we pretend extending the use of Markov chain models to define novel molecular descriptors, which consider in addition other parameters like target site or biological effect. Specifically, this math...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cruz-Monteagudo M,González-Díaz H,Uriarte E

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：: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：: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 a staged-structured population model that describes the competitive dynamics of two functionally similar, congeneric invasive species: zebra mussels and quagga mussels. The model assumes that the population survival rates are functions of temperature and turbidity, and that the two species compete for food....

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Huang Q,Wang H,Ricciardi A,Lewis MA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial quorum sensing (QS) is a form of intercellular communication that relies on the production and detection of diffusive signaling molecules called autoinducers. Such a mechanism allows the bacteria to track their cell density in order to regulate group behavior, such as biofilm formation and bioluminescence. I...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Fan G,Bressloff PC

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a model for describing the dynamics of imatinib-treated chronic myelogenous leukemia. Our model is based on replacing the recent agent-based model of Roeder et al. (Nat. Med. 12(10):1181-1184, 2006) by a system of deterministic difference equations. These difference equations describe the time-evolution of ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Kim PS,Lee PP,Levy D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to their name, biofilms are not always flat and homogeneous but instead often exhibit complex structural heterogeneity. It has been suggested that nonhomogeneous geometry is selected in order to increase biofilm growth rate. A previous study (Dockery and Klapper (2002) SIAM J. Appl. Math., 62, 853-869) of ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Klapper I

更新日期：2004-07-01 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 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：: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 fluorescent dye carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE) classifies proliferating cell populations into groups according to the number of divisions each cell has undergone (i.e., its division class). The pulse labeling of cells with radioactive thymidine provides a means to determine the distribution...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Lee HY,Perelson AS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moment closure methods are widely used to analyze mathematical models. They are specifically geared toward derivation of approximations of moments of stochastic models, and of similar quantities in other models. The methods possess several weaknesses: Conditions for validity of the approximations are not known, magnit...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Nåsell I

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe and analyze a periodically-forced difference equation model for malaria in mosquitoes that captures the effects of seasonality and allows the mosquitoes to feed on a heterogeneous population of hosts. We numerically show the existence of a unique globally asymptotically stable periodic orbit and calculate ...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Chitnis N,Hardy D,Smith T

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:We study crossflow filtration mechanisms in suspension-feeding fishes using computational fluid dynamics to model fluid flow and food particle movement in the vicinity of the gill rakers. During industrial and biological crossflow filtration, particles are retained when they remain suspended in the mainstream flow tra...

journal_title：Bulletin of mathematical biology

authors： Cheer A,Cheung S,Hung TC,Piedrahita RH,Sanderson SL

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00