The T helper type 17/regulatory T cell paradigm in pregnancy

AS Figueiredo, A Schumacher - Immunology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Summary T helper type 17 (Th17) and regulatory T (Treg) cells are active players in the
establishment of tolerance and defence. These attributes of the immune system enmesh to …

Boolean modeling: a logic‐based dynamic approach for understanding signaling and regulatory networks and for making useful predictions

R Albert, J Thakar - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The biomolecules inside or near cells form a complex interacting system. Cellular
phenotypes and behaviors arise from the totality of interactions among the components of …

Boolean modeling of biological regulatory networks: a methodology tutorial

A Saadatpour, R Albert - Methods, 2013 - Elsevier
Given the complexity and interactive nature of biological systems, constructing informative
and coherent network models of these systems and subsequently developing efficient …

Model checking to assess T-helper cell plasticity

W Abou-Jaoudé, PT Monteiro, A Naldi… - … in bioengineering and …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Computational modeling constitutes a crucial step toward the functional understanding of
complex cellular networks. In particular, logical modeling has proven suitable for the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of low-grade inflammation and metabolic flexibility in aging and nutritional modulation thereof: a systems biology approach

D Calçada, D Vianello, E Giampieri, C Sala… - Mechanisms of ageing …, 2014 - Elsevier
Aging is a biological process characterized by the progressive functional decline of many
interrelated physiological systems. In particular, aging is associated with the development of …

A minimal regulatory network of extrinsic and intrinsic factors recovers observed patterns of CD4+ T cell differentiation and plasticity

ME Martinez-Sanchez, L Mendoza… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
CD4+ T cells orchestrate the adaptive immune response in vertebrates. While both
experimental and modeling work has been conducted to understand the molecular genetic …

A network model to describe the terminal differentiation of B cells

A Méndez, L Mendoza - PLoS computational biology, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Terminal differentiation of B cells is an essential process for the humoral immune response
in vertebrates and is achieved by the concerted action of several transcription factors in …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamical modeling and analysis of large cellular regulatory networks

D Bérenguier, C Chaouiya, PT Monteiro… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamical analysis of large biological regulatory networks requires the development of
scalable methods for mathematical modeling. Following the approach initially introduced by …

Modeling biology spanning different scales: an open challenge

F Castiglione, F Pappalardo, C Bianca… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
It is coming nowadays more clear that in order to obtain a unified description of the different
mechanisms governing the behavior and causality relations among the various parts of a …

Multiscale modelling in immunology: a review

A Cappuccio, P Tieri, F Castiglione - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
One of the greatest challenges in biomedicine is to get a unified view of observations made
from the molecular up to the organism scale. Towards this goal, multiscale models have …