A Mathematical Model for Clonal Expansion of Antigen Specific T Cells
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چکیده
In this paper a macroscopic phenomenological model for the T cell mediated immune response due to a single type of antigen challenge is developed in the framework of the thermodynamic theory of fluid mixtures. Proliferation events accounting for the generation of T cell clones are considered, determining a non conservative balance for mass and momentum densities for the mixture as a whole in a way analogous to some cases in tumor modelling and growth of tissues.
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