Agent-based model of human alveoli predicts chemotactic signaling by epithelial cells during early Aspergillus fumigatus infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Pollmächer, Johannes ^a,b   Figge, Marc Thilo ^a,b  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL RESPIRATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONIDIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; SPATIO TEMPORAL AGENT BASED MODEL; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BREATHING; FUNGUS SPORE; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS;

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACROPHAGES; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RESPIRATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84910015015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111630     Document Type: Article

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