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Robustness and Fragility in Immunosenescence

We construct a model to study tradeoffs associated with aging in the adaptive immune system, focusing on cumulative effects of replacing naive cells with memory cells. Binding affinities are characterized by a stochastic shape space model. System loss arising from an individual infection is associat...

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Autores principales: Stromberg, Sean P, Carlson, Jean
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1664698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17121459
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020160