Mathematical model for calcium-assisted epidermal homeostasis

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY-INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS

35 epileptic patients, aged 10 to 58 years (mean 23), who were taking anticonvulsant drugs were studied. The patients exhibited a 34% reduction in serum calcium levels, a 41 % increase in serum alkaline phosphatase activity and a slight but insignificant decrease in serum phosphate, compared to untreated controls. These changes appear to be related to the anticonvulsant drug taken, in the ...

Mathematical Model of Blood Calcium Ion Regulation

Group Members Thomas Rosal∗ Ohio State University [email protected] Jonathan Bell Univ of Maryland Baltimore County [email protected] Jana Gevertz The College of New Jersey [email protected] Franziska Hinkelmann Ohio State University [email protected] Glenn Ledder University of Nebraska [email protected] Paul Roberts University of Oxford, UK [email protected] Johanna Stamper U...

A Mathematical Model for Flood Protection

Many regions in the world are protected against flooding by a dike, which may be either natural or artificial. We deal with a model for finding the optimal heights of such a dike in the future. It minimizes the sum of the investments costs for upgrading the dike in the future and the expected costs due to flooding. The model is highly nonlinear, nonconvex, and infinite-dimensional. Despite this...

Mathematical model of consumer homeostasis control in plant-herbivore dynamics

Consumers must regulate the elemental composition of body tissue at ratios that differ from those of their food. This problem of elemental homeostasis is especially acute for herbivores for which elemental composition of food does not equal that of the consumer and changes widely throughout the lifespan. We extend work of Sterner [1] and Frost & Elser [2] using a dynamic model of homeostatic co...

A Mathematical Model of the Potassium Homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae