Stochastic competitive exclusion in the maintenance of the naïve T cell repertoire

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 265, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 396-410

  Stirk, Emily R ^a   Lythe, Grant ^a   van den Berg, Hugo A ^b   Molina París, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Large N expansion; Niche overlap; Stochastic bivariate birth and death process; T cell homeostasis; TCR diversity

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN; BIOLOGY; CLONE; EXTINCTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MARKOV CHAIN; NICHE OVERLAP;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TIME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AUTOANTIGENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SELF TOLERANCE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 77954621832     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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