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Immune System Modelling and Simulation
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Immune System Modelling and Simulation

by Filippo Castiglione, Franco Celada
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
286 pages
7h 23m
English
CRC Press
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rate of the virus; (vi) assign a mutation rate to the virus; (vii)
set a budding rate of newly assembled viruses from the cell
membrane (how many fully functional viral particles?), or the
bursting threshold, that is, the threshold value for the number
Figure 54. Plasma B cells (PLB, left) and cytokines (right) during an immune response
to a fast-replicating bacterium. IgG1-producing PLB cells surpass IgM- and IgG2-
producing cells. On the cytokines pattern, the presence of TGF-β and IL-4 reveals a
Th2 response, but because pro-Th1 cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12 are also present, the
response is not at all unbalanced.
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ISBN: 9781466597488