How the interval between prime and boost injection affects the immune response in a computational model of the immune system

F Castiglione, F Mantile… - … methods in medicine, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The immune system is able to respond more vigorously to the second contact with a given
antigen than to the first contact. Vaccination protocols generally include at least two doses …

Simulation modelling for immunologists

A Handel, NL La Gruta, PG Thomas - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
The immune system is inordinately complex with many interacting components determining
overall outcomes. Mathematical and computational modelling provides a useful way in …

Determination of the optimal therapeutic protocols in cancer immunotherapy

A Cappuccio, F Castiglione, B Piccoli - Mathematical biosciences, 2007 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy aims at eliciting an immune system response against the tumor.
However, it is often characterized by toxic side-effects. Limiting the tumor growth and …

Mathematical modeling provides kinetic details of the human immune response to vaccination

D Le, JD Miller, VV Ganusov - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
With major advances in experimental techniques to track antigen-specific immune
responses many basic questions on the kinetics of virus-specific immunity in humans remain …

Mathematical modelling of immune response in tissues

B Su, W Zhou, KS Dorman… - … Mathematical Methods in …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed a spatial–temporal mathematical model (PDE) to capture fundamental
aspects of the immune response to antigen. We have considered terms that broadly …

[HTML][HTML] Computational approaches to parameter estimation and model selection in immunology

CTH Baker, GA Bocharov, JM Ford, PM Lumb… - Journal of computational …, 2005 - Elsevier
One of the significant challenges in biomathematics (and other areas of science) is to
formulate meaningful mathematical models. Our problem is to decide on a parametrized …

[HTML][HTML] Rival approaches to mathematical modelling in immunology

SM Andrew, CTH Baker, GA Bocharov - Journal of Computational and …, 2007 - Elsevier
In order to formulate quantitatively correct mathematical models of the immune system, one
requires an understanding of immune processes and familiarity with a range of …

Different strategies for cancer treatment: mathematical modelling

OG Isaeva, VA Osipov - Computational and Mathematical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We formulate and analyse a mathematical model describing immune response to avascular
tumour under the influence of immunotherapy and chemotherapy and their combinations as …

The Basic Immune Simulator: an agent-based model to study the interactions between innate and adaptive immunity

VA Folcik, GC An, CG Orosz - Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, 2007 - Springer
Abstract Background We introduce the Basic Immune Simulator (BIS), an agent-based
model created to study the interactions between the cells of the innate and adaptive immune …

A population-based artificial immune system for numerical optimization

M Gong, L Jiao, X Zhang - Neurocomputing, 2008 - Elsevier
Many immue-inspired algorithms are based on the abstractions of one or several
immunology theories, such as clonal selection, negative selection, positive selection, rather …