Anti-tumor immunity and tumor anti-immunity in a mathematical model of tumor immunotherapy

Journal of Biological Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-30

  Foryś, Urszula ^a   Waniewski, Jacek ^b,c   Zhivkov, Petar ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND NUCLEAR ENERGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Immune response; Ordinary differential equations; Phase portrait; Stability analysis; Tumor vaccine

Indexed keywords

EID: 33344454497     PISSN: 02183390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218339006001702     Document Type: Article

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