The lymph node B cell immune response: Dynamic analysis In-Silico

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1421-1443

  Swerdlin, Naamah ^a   Cohen, Irun R ^a   Harel, David ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bottom up modeling; Emergent properties; Lymph node; Reactive animation; Reactive system

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ANTIGENS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTES; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

BOTTOM UP MODELS; EMERGENT PROPERTY; LYMPH NODE; REACTIVE ANIMATION; REACTIVE SYSTEM;

IMMUNE SYSTEM;

EID: 47949098283     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.925435     Document Type: Article

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