A continuous model studying T cell differentiation and lymphomagenesis and its distinction with discrete models

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3 A, 2004, Pages 1813-1816

  Wang, Guanyu ^a   Krueger, Gerhard R F ^a   Buja, L Maximilian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphomagenesis; Mathematical modeling; T cell differentiation

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCULATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSPORT; DYNAMICS; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOMA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD44; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 3242726031     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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