Stochasticity and spatial heterogeneity in T-cell activation

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-80

  Burroughs, Nigel J ^a   Van Der Merwe, P Anton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Mathematical models; Queuing theory; T cell activation; T cell receptor; Theoretical models

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CD148 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; LIGAND; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL FUNCTION; CONFORMATION; KINETICS; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33947221407     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2006.00486.x     Document Type: Review

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