Immunological self-tolerance: Lessons from mathematical modeling

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-100

  Carneiro, Jorge ^a   Paixão, Tiago ^a   Milutinovic, Dejan ^b   Sousa, João ^a   Leon, Kalet ^a,c   Gardner, Rui ^a   Faro, Jose ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c Centro de Inmunologia Molecular   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Modeling; Regulatory CD4+CD25+T cells; Self tolerance; Tuning

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

LYMPHOCYTES; MONTE CARLO STOCHASTIC SIMULATION; SELF TOLERANCE; SPECIFIC REGULATORY T CELLS;

IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 23344444120     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2004.10.025     Document Type: Article

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