Mathematical modelling of atherosclerosis as an inflammatory disease

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1908, 2009, Pages 4877-4886

  El Khatib, N ^a   Genieys S ^a   Kazmierczak, B ^b   Volpert, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Biomathematics; Mathematical modelling; Partial differential equations; Reaction diffusion equations; Travelling waves

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; BODY FLUIDS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; EMPLOYMENT; LEAD; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BISTABLE SYSTEM; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY; CYTOKINES; FOAM CELLS; INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY PROCESS; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; MONOSTABLE SYSTEM; NON-LINEAR BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; REACTION DIFFUSION SYSTEMS; REACTION-DIFFUSION WAVES; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; TRAVELLING WAVES; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INTIMA; KINETICS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; KINETICS; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 73349125450     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0142     Document Type: Article

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