Mathematical modeling of the immune system recognition to mammary carcinoma antigen

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL.17, 2012, Pages

  Bianca, Carlo ^a   Chiacchio, Ferdinando ^b   Pappalardo, Francesco ^b   Pennisi, Marzio ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELLS; ARTIFICIAL IMMUNITY; CELLULAR RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM CELLS; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; MAMMARY CARCINOMA; MAMMARY CARCINOMA CELL; RECOGNITION PROCESS;

ANTIGENS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TUMORS; VACCINES;

DISEASES;

CANCER VACCINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; MAMMARY CARCINOMA ANTIGEN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CANCER VACCINES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84870253722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-S17-S21     Document Type: Article

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