Title
A Stochastic Process Algebra Approach to Simulation of Autoreactive Lymphocyte Recruitment
Abstract
This article presents a stochastic model of lymphocyte recruitment in inflamed brain microvessels. Recent studies about the inflammatory process of the brain that leads to multiple sclerosis have revealed that lymphocyte extravasation is a sequence of dynamical states, mediated by partially overlapped interactions of different adhesion molecules and activation factors. This study's model of lymphocyte recruitment is based on process algebras for mobile systems. The biochemical system is modelled as a set of concurrent processes of the biochemical stochastic pi-calculus. Processes are driven by suitable probability distributions that quantitatively describe the rates and the times at which reactions to simulations occur. The results of the model reproduce, within the estimated experimental errors, the functional behavior of the data obtained from laboratory measurements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1177/0037549704045800
SIMULATION-TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION INTERNATIONAL
Keywords
DocType
Volume
process algebras,stochastic pi-calculus,cell adhesion mechanics,lymphocyte recruitment
Journal
80
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
0037-5497
20
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.36
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paola Lecca17611.94
Corrado Priami21615148.58
Paola Quaglia335627.06
B. Rossi4201.36
Carlo Laudanna5727.34
G. Constantin6201.70