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The transition between immune and disease states in a cellular automaton model of clonal immune response

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  • Bezzi, Michele
  • Celada, Franco
  • Ruffo, Stefano
  • Seiden, Philip E.

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In this paper we extend the Celada-Seiden (CS) model of the humoral immune response to include infections virus and killer T cells (cellular response). The model represents molecules and cells with bitstrings. The response of the system to virus involves a competition between the ability of the virus to kill the host cells and the host's ability to eliminate the virus. We find two basins of attraction in the dynamics of this system, one is identified with disease and the other with the immune state. There is also an oscillating state that exists on the border of these two stable states. Fluctuations in the population of virus or antibody can end the oscillation and drive the system into one of the stable states. The introduction of mechanisms of cross-regulation between the two responses can bias the system towards one of them. We also study a mean field model, based on coupled maps, to investigate virus-like infections. This simple model reproduces the attractors for average populations observed in the cellular automaton. All the dynamical behavior connected to spatial extension is lost, as is the oscillating feature. Thus the mean field approximation introduced with coupled maps destroys oscillations.

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  • Bezzi, Michele & Celada, Franco & Ruffo, Stefano & Seiden, Philip E., 1997. "The transition between immune and disease states in a cellular automaton model of clonal immune response," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 245(1), pages 145-163.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:245:y:1997:i:1:p:145-163
    DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00290-2
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