A mathematical model for immune and autoimmune response mediated by T-cells

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1010-1023

  Delitala, Marcello ^a   Dianzani, Umberto ^b   Lorenzi, Tommaso ^a   Melensi, Matteo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Immunization and autoimmunization; Modeling T cell immune and autoimmune response; Molecular mimicry; Structured and unstructured population dynamics

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE DISORDER; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALTERATIONS; GLOBAL EXISTENCE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; STRUCTURED POPULATION; T-CELL RESPONSE; VIRTUAL LABORATORIES;

ANTIGENS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

T-CELLS;

EID: 84883216463     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2013.06.026     Document Type: Article

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