Estimation of the proliferation and maturation functions in a physiologically structured model of thymocyte development : FFFunction estimation in thymocyte model

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 761-786

  Wang, Guanyu ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse problems; Optimization; Parameter estimation; Physiologically structured model; Thymocyte development

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOMA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 34249657990     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: 14321416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-006-0068-0     Document Type: Article

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