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  1. HIV infected patients may experience many intermediate events including between-event transition throughout their follow up. Through modelling these transitions, we can gain a deeper understanding of HIV disea...

    Authors: Zelalem G. Dessie, Temesgen Zewotir, Henry Mwambi and Delia North

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2020 17:10

    Content type: Research

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  2. On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization was alerted to the occurrence of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, that were caused by an unknown virus, which was later identified as a co...

    Authors: Soyoung Kim, Sunhwa Choi, Youngsuk Ko, Moran Ki and Eunok Jung

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2020 17:9

    Content type: Research

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  3. Genes, proteins, or cells influence each other and consequently create patterns, which can be increasingly better observed by experimental biology and medicine. Thereby, descriptive methods of statistics and b...

    Authors: Marco Albrecht, Philippe Lucarelli, Dagmar Kulms and Thomas Sauter

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2020 17:8

    Content type: Review

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  4. This paper intends to check whether and how a hypothetical dengue vaccine could contribute to issue of evolution of bacteria resistance against antibiotics by reducing the number of patients that would inappro...

    Authors: Ana Kurauchi, Claudio Jose Struchiner, Annelies Wilder-Smith and Eduardo Massad

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2020 17:7

    Content type: Research

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  5. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important health topics in the world. Directly observed treatment and short course chemotherapy (DOTS) strategy combines medicine care and modern health system firmly, and ...

    Authors: Siyu Liu, Yingjie Bi and Yawen Liu

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2020 17:6

    Content type: Research

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  6. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a degenerative brain disease. A novel agent-based modelling framework was developed in NetLogo 3D to provide fundamental insights into the potential mechanisms by which a microbe (eg.

    Authors: Shalini Sundar, Carly Battistoni, Ryan McNulty, Fernando Morales, Jonathan Gorky, Henry Foley and Prasad Dhurjati

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2020 17:5

    Content type: Research

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  10. Estimating HIV incidence is crucial for monitoring the epidemiology of this infection, planning screening and intervention campaigns, and evaluating the effectiveness of control measures. However, owing to the...

    Authors: Xiaodan Sun, Hiroshi Nishiura and Yanni Xiao

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2020 17:1

    Content type: Review

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  11. Variations of gene expression levels play an important role in tumors. There are numerous methods to identify differentially expressed genes in high-throughput sequencing. Several algorithms endeavor to identi...

    Authors: Chengyou Liu, Leilei Zhou, Yuhe Wang, Shuchang Tian, Junlin Zhu, Hang Qin, Yong Ding and Hongbing Jiang

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:20

    Content type: Review

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  12. Glucose tolerance testing is a tool used to estimate glucose effectiveness and insulin sensitivity in diabetic patients. The importance of such tests has prompted the development and utilisation of mathematica...

    Authors: Ross A. Kelly, Molly J. Fitches, Steven D. Webb, S. R. Pop and Stewart J. Chidlow

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:21

    Content type: Research

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  13. Gravity, especially hypergravity, can affect the morphology of membranes, and further influence most biological processes. Since vesicle structures are relatively simple, the vesicle can be treated as a vital ...

    Authors: Lili Wang, Weiyi Chen, Hongmei Guo and Airong Qian

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:19

    Content type: Research

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  14. Associations between disease characteristics and payer-relevant outcomes can be difficult to establish for rare and progressive chronic diseases with sparse available data. We developed an exploratory bridging...

    Authors: Gorana Capkun, Jens Schmidt, Shubhro Ghosh, Harsh Sharma, Thomas Obadia, Ana de Vera, Valery Risson and Billy Amzal

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:17

    Content type: Research

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  15. Autophagy and apoptosis are two important physiological processes that determine cell survival or death in response to different stress signals. The regulatory mechanisms of these two processes share B-cell ly...

    Authors: Bojie Yang, Quansheng Liu and Yuanhong Bi

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:18

    Content type: Research

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  16. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) are two coronaviruses with demonstrated potential to generate significant nosocomial outbreaks. In particular, MERS continue...

    Authors: Fatima Abdirizak, Rayleen Lewis and Gerardo Chowell

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:16

    Content type: Research

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  17. Group A streptococcus (GAS) is the most frequent cause of bacterial pharyngitis in school-aged children. The postinfection sequel as acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease that cause morbidity...

    Authors: Natsuda Yokchoo, Nichaphat Patanarapeelert and Klot Patanarapeelert

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:14

    Content type: Research

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  19. Photothermal therapy is a local treatment method for cancer and the heat energy generated from it could destroy the tumor cells. This study is aimed to investigate the temperature distribution in tumor tissue ...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Xu, Shan Long, Yunning Yang, Feifan Zhou, Ning Dong, Kesong Yan, Bo Wang, Yachao Zeng, Nan Du, Xiaosong Li and Wei R. Chen

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:12

    Content type: Research

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  21. After proteolysis, the majority of released amino acids from dietary protein are transported to the liver for gluconeogenesis or to peripheral tissues where they are used for protein synthesis and eventually c...

    Authors: Jeddidiah W. D. Griffin and Patrick C. Bradshaw

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:11

    Content type: Research

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  22. The mathematical design of optimal therapies to fight cancer is an important research field in today’s Biomathematics and Biomedicine given its relevance to formulate patient-specific treatments. Until now, ho...

    Authors: Pedro José Gutiérrez-Diez, Miguel Ángel López-Marcos, Julia Martínez-Rodríguez and Jose Russo

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:10

    Content type: Research

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  23. There is an increasing need for complex computational models to perform in silico experiments as an adjunct to in vitro and in vivo experiments in immunology. We introduce Microscopic Stochastic Immune System ...

    Authors: Csaba Kerepesi, Tibor Bakács and Tamás Szabados

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:9

    Content type: Software

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  24. After publication of the original article

    Authors: Daniel Pike, Yan-Ting Shiu, Maheshika Somarathna, Lingling Guo, Tatyana Isayeva, John Totenhagen and Timmy Lee

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:8

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    The original article was published in Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2017 14:5

  25. The increasing amounts of genomics data have helped in the understanding of the molecular dynamics of complex systems such as plant and animal diseases. However, transcriptional regulation, although playing a ...

    Authors: Juan Camilo Castro, Ivan Valdés, Laura Natalia Gonzalez-García, Giovanna Danies, Silvia Cañas, Flavia Vischi Winck, Carlos Eduardo Ñústez, Silvia Restrepo and Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:7

    Content type: Research

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  27. Mathematical models of diseases may provide a unified approach for establishing effective treatment strategies based on fundamental pathophysiology. However, models that are useful for clinical practice must o...

    Authors: Yukihiro Yamanaka, Kenko Uchida, Momoka Akashi, Yuta Watanabe, Arino Yaguchi, Shuji Shimamoto, Shingo Shimoda, Hitoshi Yamada, Masashi Yamashita and Hidenori Kimura

    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2019 16:5

    Content type: Research

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  28. 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

    Content type: Research

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  29. 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

    Content type: Research

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  30. 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

    Content type: Research

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  31. 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

    Content type: Research

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  32. 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

    Content type: Research

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  33. 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

    Content type: Research

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  34. 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

    Content type: Research

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  36. 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

    Content type: Research

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  40. 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

    Content type: Research

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  42. 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

    Content type: Research

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  43. 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

    Content type: Research

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  44. 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

    Content type: Research

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  45. 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

    Content type: Research

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  46. 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

    Content type: Research

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  47. 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

    Content type: Research

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  48. 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

    Content type: Research

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  49. 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

    Content type: Research

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  50. 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

    Content type: Research

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