Pairing experimentation and computational modeling to understand the role of tissue inducer cells in the development of lymphoid organs

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Alden, Kieran ^a,b   Timmis, Jon ^b   Andrews, Paul S ^b   Veiga Fernandes, Henrique ^c   Coles, Mark C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Computational modeling; Development; Lymphoid tissue inducing cells; Lymphoid tissue organizer cells; Peyer's patches; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874214076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00172     Document Type: Article

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