The Basic Immune Simulator: An agent-based model to study the interactions between innate and adaptive immunity

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Folcik, Virginia A ^a   An, Gary C ^b   Orosz, Charles G ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BASIC IMMUNE SIMULATOR; CALIBRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; GRANULOCYTE; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MEDIATOR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEOPLASM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS INFECTION; ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; TEACHING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; TEACHING MATERIALS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 38049136890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4682-4-39     Document Type: Article

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