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  1. The application of effective vaccines against pig cysticercosis and mass chemotherapy against pig cysticercosis and human taeniasis have shown the feasibility of interrupting the parasite’s life cycle in endem...

    Authors: Norma Y. Sánchez-Torres, Juan R. Bobadilla, Juan P. Laclette and Marco V. José
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:4
  2. Clinical studies have shown that all-trans retinoic acid (RA), which is often used in treatment of cancer patients, improves hemostatic parameters and bleeding complications such as disseminated intravascular ...

    Authors: Hamed Ghaffari, Jeffrey D. Varner and Linda R. Petzold
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:3
  3. Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection is an important cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea. Several factors such as admission of colonized patients, levels of serum antibodies in patients, and control...

    Authors: Farida Chamchod and Prasit Palittapongarnpim
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:2
  4. Mathematical modeling is now frequently used in outbreak investigations to understand underlying mechanisms of infectious disease dynamics, assess patterns in epidemiological data, and forecast the trajectory ...

    Authors: Kimberlyn Roosa and Gerardo Chowell
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:1
  5. The Smad7 protein is negative regulator of the TGF-β signaling pathway, which is upregulated in patients with breast cancer. miRNAs regulate proteins expressions by arresting or degrading the mRNAs. The purpos...

    Authors: Edgar Manzanarez-Ozuna, Dora-Luz Flores, Everardo Gutiérrez-López, David Cervantes and Patricia Juárez
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:24
  6. Personalized medicine for patients receiving radiation therapy remains an elusive goal due, in part, to the limits in our understanding of the underlying mechanisms governing tumor response to radiation. The p...

    Authors: Hualiang Zhong, Stephen Brown, Suneetha Devpura, X. Allen Li and Indrin J. Chetty
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:23
  7. Many biological soft tissues are hydrated porous hyperelastic materials, which consist of a complex solid skeleton with fine voids and fluid filling these voids. Mechanical interactions between the solid and t...

    Authors: Satoko Hirabayashi and Masami Iwamoto
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:21
  8. Taenia solium is the aetiological agent of human taeniasis, pig cysticercosis and human neurocysticercosis, which are serious public health problems, especially in developing countries.

    Authors: Marco V. José, Juan R. Bobadilla, Norma Y. Sánchez-Torres and Juan Pedro Laclette
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:18
  9. Embryo transfer (ET) is a key step of assisted reproductive procedures, where the transferred medium containing the embryos is injected into the uterine cavity through a transcervical catheter and blended with...

    Authors: Dali Ding, Weiping Shi and Yang Shi
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:20
  10. The acidity of human body fluids, expressed by the pH, is physiologically regulated in a narrow range, which is required for the proper function of cellular metabolism. Acid-base disorders are common especiall...

    Authors: Filip Ježek and Jiří Kofránek
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:14
  11. Many vector-borne diseases co-circulate, as the viruses from the same family are also transmitted by the same vector species. For example, Zika and dengue viruses belong to the same Flavivirus family and are prim...

    Authors: Biao Tang, Xi Huo, Yanni Xiao, Shigui Ruan and Jianhong Wu
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:13
  12. Ketogenic therapy in the form of ketogenic diets or calorie restriction has been proposed as a metabolic treatment of high grade glioma (HGG) brain tumors based on mechanistic reasoning obtained mainly from an...

    Authors: Rainer J. Klement, Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay, Colin E. Champ and Harald Walach
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:12
  13. Mathematical modeling has become a tool used to address many emerging diseases. One of the most basic and popular modeling frameworks is the compartmental model. Unfortunately, most of the available compartmen...

    Authors: Parinya Suparit, Anuwat Wiratsudakul and Charin Modchang
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:11
  14. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has become the standard of care for patients with HIV infection in South Africa and has led to the reduction in AIDS related morbidity and mortality. In developing countries, the n...

    Authors: Claris Shoko and Delson Chikobvu
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:10
  15. Unlike the epidemic of yellow fever from 2016 to 17 in Brazil mostly restricted to the States of Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo, the epidemic from 2017 to 18 mainly involved São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and r...

    Authors: Yohei Sakamoto, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Nao Yamamoto and Hiroshi Nishiura
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:9
  16. The process by which blood cells are formed is referred to as hematopoiesis. This process involves a complex sequence of phases that blood cells must complete. During hematopoiesis, a small fraction of cells unde...

    Authors: Christina L. Mouser, Eliana S. Antoniou and Evros K. Vassiliou
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:8
  17. Environmentally growing pathogens present an increasing threat for human health, wildlife and food production. Treating the hosts with antibiotics or parasitic bacteriophages fail to eliminate diseases that gr...

    Authors: Ilona Merikanto, Jouni T. Laakso and Veijo Kaitala
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:7
  18. It is believed that sexually active people, i.e. people having multiple or concurrent sexual partners, are at a high risk of sexually transmitted infections (STI), but they are likely to be more aware of the r...

    Authors: Nao Yamamoto, Keisuke Ejima and Hiroshi Nishiura
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:6
  19. The effects of current anthropogenic influences on eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows are noticeable. Eelgrass ecological services grant important benefits for mankind. Preservation of eelgrass meadows include sev...

    Authors: Héctor Echavarría-Heras, Cecilia Leal-Ramírez, Enrique Villa-Diharce and Nohe Cazarez-Castro
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:4
  20. As HIV enters the human body, its main target is the CD4 cell which it turns into a factory that produces millions of other HIV particles. These HIV particles target new CD4 cells resulting in the progression ...

    Authors: Claris Shoko and Delson Chikobvu
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2018 15:3
  21. The small intestinal epithelium is a dynamic system with specialized cell types. The various cell populations of this tissue are continually renewed and replenished from stem cells that reside in the small int...

    Authors: Erik R. Barthel
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:25
  22. Increased computational resources have made individual based models popular for modelling epidemics. They have the advantage of incorporating heterogeneous features, including realistic population structures (...

    Authors: Abhishek Bakuli, Frank Klawonn, André Karch and Rafael Mikolajczyk
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:26
  23. Histamine (HA), a small molecule that is synthesized from the amino acid histidine, plays an important role in the immune system where it is associated with allergies, inflammation, and T-cell regulation. In t...

    Authors: Janet Best, H. F. Nijhout, Srimal Samaranayake, Parastoo Hashemi and Michael Reed
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:24
  24. National or local laws, norms or regulations (sometimes and in some countries) require medical providers to report notifiable diseases to public health authorities. Reporting, however, is almost always incompl...

    Authors: Marcos Amaku, Marcelo Nascimento Burattini, Eleazar Chaib, Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho, David Greenhalgh, Luis Fernandez Lopez and Eduardo Massad
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:23
  25. Matching the frequency of the driving force to that of the system’s natural frequency of vibration results in greater amplitude response. Thus we hypothesize that applying ultrasound at the chondrocyte’s reson...

    Authors: April D. Miller, Anuradha Subramanian and Hendrik J. Viljoen
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:21
  26. Following the formation of a primary carcinoma, neoplastic cells metastasize by undergoing the epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT), which is triggered by cues from inflammatory and stromal cells in the mic...

    Authors: Kelsey Gasior, Marlene Hauck, Alyson Wilson and Sudin Bhattacharya
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:19
  27. The genetic diversity of cancer and the dynamic interactions between heterogeneous tumor cells, the stroma and immune cells present daunting challenges to the development of effective cancer therapies. Althoug...

    Authors: Youcef Derbal
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:18
  28. Despite high vaccination coverage, many childhood infections pose a growing threat to human populations. Accurate disease forecasting would be of tremendous value to public health. Forecasting disease emergenc...

    Authors: Paige B. Miller, Eamon B. O’Dea, Pejman Rohani and John M. Drake
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:17
  29. The public benefit of test-and-treat has induced a need to justify goodness for the public, and mathematical modeling studies have played a key role in designing and evaluating the test-and-treat strategy for ...

    Authors: Kyeongah Nah, Hiroshi Nishiura, Naho Tsuchiya, Xiaodan Sun, Yusuke Asai and Akifumi Imamura
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:16
  30. A large epidemic of cholera, caused by Vibrio cholerae, serotype Ogawa, has been ongoing in Yemen, 2017. To improve the situation awareness, the present study aimed to forecast the cholera epidemic, explicitly ad...

    Authors: Hiroshi Nishiura, Shinya Tsuzuki, Baoyin Yuan, Takayuki Yamaguchi and Yusuke Asai
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:14
  31. Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 (HSV-2) is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases. Although there is still no licensed vaccine for HSV-2, a theoretical investigation of the potential effects of a vac...

    Authors: Jinliang Wang, Xiaoqing Yu, Heidi L. Tessmer, Toshikazu Kuniya and Ryosuke Omori
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:13
  32. With up to 240 million people chronically infected with hepatitis B worldwide, including an estimated 2 million in the United States, widespread screening is needed to link the infected to care and decrease th...

    Authors: Martin A. Sehr, Kartik D. Joshi, John M. Fontanesi, Robert J. Wong, Robert R. Bitmead and Robert G. Gish
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:11
  33. The host range of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is quite narrow. Therefore, analyzing HIV-1 pathogenesis in vivo has been limited owing to lack of appropriate animal model systems. To overcome this, chime...

    Authors: Shoya Iwanami, Yusuke Kakizoe, Satoru Morita, Tomoyuki Miura, Shinji Nakaoka and Shingo Iwami
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:9
  34. When administering vancomycin hydrochloride (VCM), the initial dose is adjusted to ensure that the steady-state trough value (Css-trough) remains within the effective concentration range. However, the Css-trou...

    Authors: Yasuyuki Kourogi, Kenji Ogata, Norito Takamura, Jin Tokunaga, Nao Setoguchi, Mitsuhiro Kai, Emi Tanaka and Susumu Chiyotanda
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:8
  35. Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) maturation failure remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in hemodialysis patients. The two major etiologies of AVF maturation failure are early neointimal hyperplasia dev...

    Authors: Daniel Pike, Yan-Ting Shiu, Maheshika Somarathna, Lingling Guo, Tatyana Isayeva, John Totenhagen and Timmy Lee
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:5

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