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  1. It has been established that stochastic effects play an important role in spatio-temporal biochemical networks. A popular method of representing such stochastic systems is the Reaction Diffusion Master Equatio...

    Authors: Atiyo Ghosh, Andre Leier and Tatiana T Marquez-Lago
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2015 12:5
  2. In this paper, we modify our previously developed conjoint tumor-normal cell model in order to make a distinction between tumor cells that are responsive to chemotherapy and those that may show resistance.

    Authors: Mitra Shojania Feizabadi and Tarynn M Witten
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2015 12:3
  3. Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in Scotland, and is associated with potentially serious reproductive outcomes, including pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and tubal factor...

    Authors: Katharine J Looker, Lesley A Wallace and Katherine ME Turner
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2015 12:2
  4. A variety of topics are reviewed in the area of mathematical and computational modeling in biology, covering the range of scales from populations of organisms to electrons in atoms. The use of maximum entropy ...

    Authors: Jack A Tuszynski, Philip Winter, Diana White, Chih-Yuan Tseng, Kamlesh K Sahu, Francesco Gentile, Ivana Spasevska, Sara Ibrahim Omar, Niloofar Nayebi, Cassandra DM Churchill, Mariusz Klobukowski and Rabab M Abou El-Magd
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:52
  5. Papillomavirus binding factor (PBF) or zinc finger protein 395 is a transcription factor associated to a poor prognosis in patients with osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer that predominantly affects adole...

    Authors: Paola Castillo, Abraham F Cetina, Alfonso Méndez-Tenorio, Lennane Michel Espinoza-Fonseca and Blanca L Barrón
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:51
  6. Lyme disease imposes increasing global public health challenges. To better understand the joint effects of seasonal temperature variation and host community composition on the pathogen transmission, a stage-st...

    Authors: Yijun Lou, Jianhong Wu and Xiaotian Wu
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:50
  7. Estimating the required dose in radiotherapy is of crucial importance since the administrated dose should be sufficient to eradicate the tumor and at the same time should inflict minimal damage on normal cells...

    Authors: Andrew Dhawan, Kamran Kaveh, Mohammad Kohandel and Sivabal Sivaloganathan
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:49
  8. Considering evolution of terrestrial animals as something happening only on flat continental plains seems wrong. Many mountains have arisen and disappeared over the geologic time scale, so in all periods some ...

    Authors: Sven Kurbel
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:47
  9. Cardiac arrhythmias are becoming one of the major health care problem in the world, causing numerous serious disease conditions including stroke and sudden cardiac death. Furthermore, cardiac arrhythmias are i...

    Authors: Nour Eddine Alaa, Hamid Lefraich and Imane El Malki
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:46
  10. Children receiving Total Body Irradiation (TBI) in preparation for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) are at risk for Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD), which sometimes severely compromises their Fin...

    Authors: Chiara Galletto, Antonio Gliozzi, Daniele Nucera, Nicoletta Bertorello, Eleonora Biasin, Andrea Corrias, Patrizia Chiabotto, Franca Fagioli and Caterina Guiot
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:44
  11. Highly successful strategies to make populations more resilient to infectious diseases, such as childhood vaccinations programs, may nonetheless lead to unpredictable outcomes due to the interplay between seas...

    Authors: Mathew P Dafilis, Federico Frascoli, Jodie McVernon, Jane M Heffernan and James M McCaw
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:43
  12. One of the leading causes of death and illness within the agriculture industry is through unintentionally ingesting or inhaling organophosphate pesticides. OP intoxication directly inhibits acetylcholinesteras...

    Authors: Richard R Chapleau, Peter J Robinson, John J Schlager and Jeffery M Gearhart
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:42
  13. In the current era of antiviral drug therapy, combining multiple drugs is a primary approach for improving antiviral effects, reducing the doses of individual drugs, relieving the side effects of strong antivi...

    Authors: Yoshiki Koizumi and Shingo Iwami
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:41
  14. The various cell types and their relative numbers in multicellular organisms are controlled by growth factors and related extracellular molecules which affect genetic expression pathways. However, these substa...

    Authors: Cyril J Craven
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:40
  15. The optimal marker for cyclosporine (CsA) monitoring in transplantation patients remains controversial. However, there is a growing interest in the use of the area under the concentration-time curve (AUC), par...

    Authors: Sarem Sarem, Jun Li, Olivier Barriere, Catherine Litalien, Yves Théorêt, Anne-Laure Lapeyraque and Fahima Nekka
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:39
  16. This study uses dimensional analysis to derive the general second-order differential equation that underlies numerous physical and natural phenomena described by common mathematical functions. It eschews assum...

    Authors: Gordon R Kepner
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:38
  17. Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases and is characterized by heterogeneity in the clinical course. To date, there are no efficient morphologic features or genomic biomarkers that can ch...

    Authors: Rudong Li, Xiao Dong, Chengcheng Ma and Lei Liu
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:37
  18. Lung ischemia–reperfusion injury (LIRI) may occur in the region of the affected lung after reperfusion therapy. Inhaled NO may be useful in treating acute and chronic pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) due to the...

    Authors: Chaosheng Deng, Minxia Yang, Qichang Lin, Yuanhua Yang, Zhenguo Zhai, Kaixiong Liu, Haibo Ding, Xiaoming Cao, Zhihua Huang, Lina Zhang and Jianming Zhao
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:36
  19. Despite rendering serum free thyroxine (FT4) and thyrotropin (TSH) within the normal population ranges broadly defined as euthyroidism, many patients being treated for hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism persis...

    Authors: Melvin Khee-Shing Leow and Simon L Goede
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:35
  20. Early detection screening of asymptomatic populations for low prevalence cancers requires a highly specific test in order to limit the cost and anxiety produced by falsely positive identifications. Most solid ...

    Authors: Matthew A Firpo, Kenneth M Boucher and Sean J Mulvihill
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:34
  21. This work expands upon a previously developed exercise dynamic physiology model (DPM) with the addition of an anatomic pulmonary system in order to quantify the impact of lung damage on oxygen transport and ph...

    Authors: David A Shelley, Bryant L Sih and Laurel J Ng
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:32
  22. A number of cellular- and molecular-level studies of autophagy assessment have been carried out with the help of various biochemical and morphological indices. Still there exists ambiguity for the assessment o...

    Authors: Kyungreem Han, Jinwoong Kim and Moo Young Choi
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:31
  23. Immunoglobulin (IG) complementarity determining region (CDR) includes VH CDR1, VH CDR2, VH CDR3, VL CDR1, VL CDR2 and VL CDR3. Of these, VH CDR3 plays a dominant role in recognizing and binding antigens. Three...

    Authors: Bin Shi, Long Ma, Xiaoyan He, Xiaomei Wang, Peng Wang, Li Zhou and Xinsheng Yao
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:30
  24. A previous theoretic model (Tumour Biol 2013;34:1–7.) that breast tumor types differ in the relative rate of tissue invasion was elaborated and developed on a consecutive case series.

    Authors: Sven Kurbel, Ksenija Marjanović and Branko Dmitrović
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:29
  25. In-silico models that attempt to capture and describe the physiological behavior of biological organisms, including humans, are intrinsically complex and time consuming to build and simulate in a computing env...

    Authors: Shaji Krishnan, Mark van Avesaat, Freddy J Troost, Henk FJ Hendriks and Albert A de Graaf
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:28
  26. The glycoprotein D (gD) is essential for Herpes B virus (BV) entry into mammalian cells. Nectin-1, an HSV-1 gD receptor, is found to be the receptor which mediated BV induced cell-cell fusion, while HVEM does ...

    Authors: Lingke Li, Zhengliang Qiu, Yan Li, Feng Liang, Huahu Ye, Yongqin Cai, Wanfeng Guo, Yan Li and Junjie Yue
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:27
  27. During plant and animal development, monolayer cell sheets display a stereotyped distribution of polygonal cell shapes. In interphase cells these shapes range from quadrilaterals to decagons, with a robust ave...

    Authors: William T Gibson, Boris Y Rubinstein, Emily J Meyer, James H Veldhuis, G Wayne Brodland, Radhika Nagpal and Matthew C Gibson
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:26
  28. The purpose of this study was the comparison of the calculated (MLSSC) and experimental power (MLSSE) in maximal lactate steady-state (MLSS) during cycling.

    Authors: Thomas Hauser, Jennifer Adam and Henry Schulz
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:1

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2016 13:18

  29. Haematotoxicity of conventional chemotherapies often results in delays of treatment or reduction of chemotherapy dose. To ameliorate these side-effects, patients are routinely treated with blood transfusions o...

    Authors: Sibylle Schirm, Christoph Engel, Markus Loeffler and Markus Scholz
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:24
  30. Although the process of endocytosis of the low density lipoprotein (LDL) macromolecule and its receptor have been the subject of intense experimental research and modeling, there are still conflicting hypothes...

    Authors: Héctor Echavarria-Heras, Cecilia Leal-Ramirez and Oscar Castillo
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:23
  31. Mathematical modeling of virus dynamics has provided quantitative insights into viral infections such as influenza, the simian immunodeficiency virus/human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C....

    Authors: Hiroki Ikeda, Rob J de Boer, Kei Sato, Satoru Morita, Naoko Misawa, Yoshio Koyanagi, Kazuyuki Aihara and Shingo Iwami
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:22
  32. Inter-patient variations in tumour growth rate are usually interpreted as biological heterogeneity among patients due to, e.g., genetic variability. However, these variations might be a result of non-exponenti...

    Authors: Esmaeil Mehrara and Eva Forssell-Aronsson
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:21
  33. Arsenic is a major environmental toxin that is detoxified in the liver by biochemical mechanisms that are still under study. In the traditional metabolic pathway, arsenic undergoes two methylation reactions, e...

    Authors: Sean D Lawley, Jina Yun, Mary V Gamble, Megan N Hall, Michael C Reed and H Frederik Nijhout
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:20
  34. Computational modeling of Red Blood Cell (RBC) flow contributes to the fundamental understanding of microhemodynamics and microcirculation. In order to construct theoretical RBC models, experimental studies on...

    Authors: Swe Soe Ye, Yan Cheng Ng, Justin Tan, Hwa Liang Leo and Sangho Kim
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:19
  35. Previously, we suggested prototypal models that describe some clinical states based on group postulates. Here, we demonstrate a group/category theory-like model for molecular/genetic biology as an alternative ...

    Authors: Jitsuki Sawamura, Shigeru Morishita and Jun Ishigooka
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:18
  36. Epigenetic variation is a main regulation mechanism of gene expression in various cancer histotypes, and due to its reversibility, the potential impact in therapy can be very relevant.

    Authors: Mariama El Baroudi, Dario La Sala, Caterina Cinti and Enrico Capobianco
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11(Suppl 1):S8

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  37. Extracting relevant information from microarray data is a very complex task due to the characteristics of the data sets, as they comprise a large number of features while few samples are generally available. I...

    Authors: Rafael Marcos Luque-Baena, Daniel Urda, Jose Luis Subirats, Leonardo Franco and Jose M Jerez
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11(Suppl 1):S7

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  38. Social media platforms encourage people to share diverse aspects of their daily life. Among these, shared health related information might be used to infer health status and incidence rates for specific condit...

    Authors: José Carlos Santos and Sérgio Matos
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11(Suppl 1):S6

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  39. Networks Biology allows the study of complex interactions between biological systems using formal, well structured, and computationally friendly models. Several different network models can be created, dependi...

    Authors: Alfredo Benso, Stefano Di Carlo, Gianfranco Politano, Alessandro Savino and Alessandro Vasciaveo
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11(Suppl 1):S5

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  40. Surgical interfaces are used for helping surgeons in interpretation and quantification of the patient information, and for the presentation of an integrated workflow where all available data are combined to en...

    Authors: Duygun Erol Barkana and Alper Açık
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11(Suppl 1):S4

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:48

  41. Superficial bladder cancer has been the subject of numerous studies for many years, but the evolution of the disease still remains not well understood. After the tumor has been surgically removed, it may reapp...

    Authors: Gregorio Rubio, Belén García-Mora, Cristina Santamaría and José Luis Pontones
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11(Suppl 1):S3

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  42. The identification of polymorphisms and/or genes responsible for an organism's radiosensitivity increases the knowledge about the cell cycle and the mechanism of the phenomena themselves, possibly providing th...

    Authors: Joanna Zyla, Paul Finnon, Robert Bulman, Simon Bouffler, Christophe Badie and Joanna Polanska
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11(Suppl 1):S2

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  43. In this work, we propose the Halo test, a simple visual test based on a freeware software for quantifying and displaying night-vision disturbances perceived by subjects under different experimental conditions,...

    Authors: José J Castro, Carolina Ortiz, Antonio M Pozo, Rosario G Anera and Margarita Soler
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11(Suppl 1):S1

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  44. Metastatic tumors are a major source of morbidity and mortality for most cancers. Interaction of circulating tumor cells with endothelium, platelets and neutrophils play an important role in the early stages o...

    Authors: Abhineet Uppal, Sean C Wightman, Sabha Ganai, Ralph R Weichselbaum and Gary An
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:17
  45. A brief overview is provided of cosinor-based techniques for the analysis of time series in chronobiology. Conceived as a regression problem, the method is applicable to non-equidistant data, a major advantage...

    Authors: Germaine Cornelissen
    Citation: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2014 11:16