Stochastic Modeling Approach to the Incubation Time of Prionic Diseases

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 4-

  Ferreira, A S ^a   da Silva, M A A ^b   Cressoni, J C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; MARKOV CHAIN; METABOLISM; PRION; PRION DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RATE CONSTANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUTOCATALYTIC PROCESS; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; INCUBATION TIME DISTRIBUTION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE; PRIONIC DISEASE; SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

DISEASES;

EID: 0042709768     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.198101     Document Type: Article

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