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  • 1
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 43 (1981), S. 1-19 
    ISSN: 1522-9602
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Mathematics
    Notes: Abstract By studying the behavior of various tracer species in the lungs, one can assess many important characteristics which distinguish normal and abnormal function. Quantitative evaluation of function depends on the use of an appropriate model in conjunction with experimental data. A multi-compartment model is derived from mass balances to describe dynamic as well as (breath-averaged) steady-state transport processes between the environment and pulmonary capillary blood. The breathing cycle is divided into three time periods (inspiration, expiration, and pause) so that the model equations are discrete in time. No other model of tracer species transport in the lungs deals simultaneously with species dynamics, variable breathing pattern, distribution inhomogeneities, and non-equilibrium between alveolar gas and capillary blood. Models currently in the literature are shown to be special cases of the model presented here.
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 49 (1987), S. 153-169 
    ISSN: 1522-9602
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Mathematics
    Notes: Abstract A mathematical model has been developed to simulatein vivo transmural accumulation of an intravenously injected tracer in the aortic wall of experimental animals. Parameters have been included to represent the following processes that affect tracer distribution: permeation of the blood-tissue interface, diffusion through the layers of the artery wall,convective solute drag through the same, and degradation. Of particular interest for thein vivo situation situation is the inclusion of boundary conditions that account for the variation in the plasma concentration of injected tracer as a function of time. Two analytical solutions are presented. The first describes a system in which two boundaries must be delineated; it pertains if the tracer is allowed to circulate until it enters the avascular media of the artery wall both across its luminal boundary and from the capillaries in its outer layer. The second applies to shorter duration experiments in which entry across only the luminal boundary is considered. A limiting case of the solution for short circulation times is presented, compared with a previously published solution, and examined for its potential utility in parameter estimation. Because of its treatment of time-dependent boundary conditions, the model has unique application toin vivo experiments related to macromolecular transport in atherosclerosis that may otherwise elude proper interpretation.
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  • 3
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    Bulletin of mathematical biology 39 (1977), S. 117-128 
    ISSN: 1522-9602
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Mathematics
    Notes: Abstract A diffusion model of tumor growth, vascularization and necrosis is used to analyze experimental data describing the temporal changes in tumor cell and blood vessel radial distributions in a host-tissue field transplanted with a fibrosarcoma. The experimental results showed a peak density of vessels occurring at the advancing migration front of the tumor and a decline in the vessel surface area at the tumor center with time. The peak density of tumor cells shifts away from the tumor center with time. These dynamic changes can be explained by a mathematical model which views the process as one of diffusion and proliferation in time and space. Coupled diffusion equations with nonlinear source and sink terms describe the proliferation, death, and migration of tumor cells and vascular surface area. The concept of an angiogenic factor elaborated by tumor cells is incorporated.
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    Annals of biomedical engineering 18 (1990), S. 37-56 
    ISSN: 1573-9686
    Keywords: Ventilatory system ; Respiratory mechanics ; Model simulations ; Rib cage ; Static relaxation ; Abdominal compression ; Mueller maneuver ; Diaphragmatic isometric inspiration ; Paradoxical breathing
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Abstract A mathematical model of chest wall mechanics, based on a phenomenological approach to force balances, provides a quantitative framework for analyzing many types of chest wall movements by using orthogonal displacement coordinates. The moveable components of the ventilatory system include the rib cage, diaphragm, and abdomen. A distinction is made between the lung-apposed and diaphragm-apposed actions on the rib cage. The model equations are derived from “pressure” balances and geometrical relations of the compartments; the stress-displacement relations are hyperbolic. With this model we simulated stiff and flaccid chest wall behavior under normal and constrained conditions associated with abdominal compression, a Mueller maneuver, and a diaphragmatic isometric inspiration. We also examined situations that produce paradoxical as well as orthodox inspiratory movements. The results of these simulations were quantitatively consistent with available data from the literature. A phenomenon predicted by the stiff-wall model during quasi-static inspiration is that the rib cage displacement is negligible near residual volume, but then increases dramatically with lung volume. Since this mathematical model has a sound physical basis and is more comprehensive than previous models, it can be used to predict and analyze the behavior of the chest wall under a wide variety of circumstances.
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    Annals of biomedical engineering 19 (1991), S. 251-272 
    ISSN: 1573-9686
    Keywords: Sensation ; CO2 rebreathing ; Exercise ; Dynamic controller ; Optimal control
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Abstract A dynamic model of the CO2 respiratory control system is proposed, which can provide a qualitative basis for predicting breathing sensations. The discomfort index, which represents breathing sensations, is assumed to be composed of two sources: the arterial CO2 level and the respiratory motor command. The respiratory controller receives inhibitory neuromechanical and excitatory CO2 signals from the plant. The CO2 signal is enhanced by exercise stimuli. This dynamic multiplicative-type controller is used in simulations of key experiments: exercise and CO2 rebreathing with and without resistive loading. The dynamics of the discomfor index, the respiratory motor command, ventilation, and arterial CO2 concentration conform to the experimental data. The perceptual sensitivity to CO2 relative to respiratory effort is significantly correlated with the slope of hypercapnic ventilatory response. This result shows a clear linkage between ventilatory response and breathing sensations. Although it is shown that the automatic controller effectively minimizes the discomfort index for perturbations about an operating point under certain conditions, the discomfort index itself does not seem to be an underlying control principle of the proposed automatic controller model. Rather, breathing sensations may influence ventilatory responses by modifying the output of the automatic controller.
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    Annals of biomedical engineering 7 (1979), S. 45-57 
    ISSN: 1573-9686
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    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Abstract The dynamic behavior of a batch culture of yeast with a rate-limiting nutrient was analyzed by examining the cell number density, cell size distribution, and concentration of a rate-limiting nutrient. The particular strain of S. cerevisiae studied grows only when the medium contains L-tryptophan. The cell number, volume distribution, and external L-tryptophan concentration were measured at successive times in the development of the culture. A mathematical model was developed to simulate the experimental data and provide a framework for understanding the dynamics of the cell growth and division in terms of cellular events. A nonlinear optimization procedure was specially adapted to estimate model parameters.
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    Annals of biomedical engineering 27 (1999), S. 208-218 
    ISSN: 1573-9686
    Keywords: Single cell model ; Multidrug resistance ; Cancer cell ; Drug influx and efflux ; Mathematical model ; Dynamic and steady-state simulation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Abstract Multidrug resistance (MDR) of some cancer cells is a major challenge for chemotherapy of systemic cancers to overcome. To experimentally uncover the cellular mechanisms leading to MDR, it is necessary to quantitatively assess both drug influx into, and efflux from, the cells exposed to drug treatment. By using a novel molecular microdelivery system to enforce continuous and adjustable drug influx into single cells by controlled diffusion through a gel plug in a micropipet tip, drug resistance studies can now be performed on the single cell level. Our dynamic model of this scheme incorporates drug delivery, diffusive mixing, and accumulation inside the cytoplasm, and efflux by both passive and active membrane transport. Model simulations using available experimental information on these processes can assist in the design of MDR related experiments on single cancer cells which are expected to lead to a quantitative evaluation of mechanisms. Simulations indicate that drug resistance of a cancer cell can be quantified better by its dynamic response than by steady-state analysis. © 1999 Biomedical Engineering Society. PAC99: 8717Aa, 8719Xx
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    Annals of biomedical engineering 6 (1978), S. 126-137 
    ISSN: 1573-9686
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    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Abstract Ventilation inhomogeneity, an important characteristic of abnormal lungs, is demonstrated in the dynamics of multibreath lung washout. Quantitative evaluation of the washout curve can be obtained from a model-free index, such as a moment ratio, or parameters of a model. Although a moment ratio is easier to compute and less dependent on noise, the parameters of an appropriate model have a direct physiological interpretation. In this study, we develop an N-alveolar-space model from dynamic mass balance equations, which account for breathing pattern variations. The general model takes the form of a set of time-varying, linear difference equations. Special cases of fewer alveolar spaces and time-invariance are examined in more detail. Properties of the time-invariant model are determined with the use of generating functions. In particular, from the generating function of the two-alveolar-space model, the ratio of the first-to-zero moments is expressed in terms of model parameters. If one of the spaces is poorly ventilated, the moment ratio approximately equals the relative volume-flow ratio of that space. As obtained from the model and found experimentally, the moment ratio gets larger as the ventilation inhomogeneity increases.
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  • 9
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    New York : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Polymer Science Part A-2: Polymer Physics 6 (1968), S. 1149-1160 
    ISSN: 0449-2978
    Keywords: Physics ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Notes: A method for the theoretical analysis of branching in radical polymerization is presented which includes the dynamics of the process. In particular, the method is applied to a polymerization that occurs by decomposition of initiator, propagation, termination by radical combination, and chain transfer with polymer. By a numerical solution of the kinetic equations (suitably transformed), the time dependence of the number-average degree of polymerization (DP), the weight-average DP, the mean number of branches, and the monomer conversion are obtained. The parameters of the process, that is the rate coefficients and initial concentrations, have the following effects: (1) An increase in the chain transfer coefficient increases the ratio of weight-average to number-average Xw/Xn and the mean number of branches Xb, but does not change the number-average Xn. (2) For a given value of the chain transfer coefficient, a change in the parameters of the process such that Xn increases, causes Xw/Xn and Xb to increase also. (3) Chain transfer with polymer seems to produce relatively few polymer molecules having many branches and a large number of smaller polymer molecules having no branches; consequently, the polymer size (or molecular weight) distribution broadens.
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  • 10
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    Medical & biological engineering & computing 14 (1976), S. 408-426 
    ISSN: 1741-0444
    Keywords: Renal transport ; Urea ; Simulation ; Digital computer
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Sommaire Un modèle mathématique des processus de transport dans les membres ascendants (AL), les canaux collecteurs (CD) et le plexus capillaire-instertitium (ICP) autour de la substance médullaire rénale a été développé et utilisé pour l'étude des mécanismes qui peuvent intervenir dans la régulation tubulaire rénale de l'excrétion d'urée. Des équations d'équilibre de corps dissous et d'eau pour des compartiments d'une parfaite homogénéité en série décrivent les processus de transport dans l'ensemble AL, CD et ICP. Les types de corps dissous considérés sont l'urée, le sel (NaCl) et un ‘corps dissous non-réabsorbable’ qui tient compte des substances diverses accumulées dans les CD. Les équations de transport de membranes utilisées dans le modèle décrivent le mouvement du corps dissous sous forme de diffusion passive, trainée de dissolvant et transport actif; et le mouvement d'eau par osmose. Les paramètres du modèle sont évalués à partir de données expérimentales publiées. Des solutions en calculateur numérique des équations du modèle indiquent que pratiquement toutes les constatations expérimentales concernant la régulation de l'excrétion d'urée s'expliquent par une augmentation de la trainée dissolvante de l'urée à partir des CD corticaux et médullaires. On évite ainsi la nécessité de postuler le transport actif d'urée à partir des CD pour expliquer la régulation de l'excrétion d'urée.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Es wurde ein mathematisches Modell des Transportvorganges in den aufsteigenden Gliedmaßen (AL), Sammelkanälen (CD) und in dem sie umgebenden Interstitial-Kapillarplexus (ICP) der Nierenrinde entwickelt und auf die Untersuchung des Mechanismus angewandt, der evtl. für die Regulierung der Harnstoffausscheidung durch die Nierenkanäle gilt. Die Transportvorgänge in den AL, CD und ICP werden durch Gleichungen für die gelösten Stoffe und den Wasserausgleich für perfekt gemischte, in Serien geschaltete Zellen beschreiben. Bei den berücksichtigten gelösten Stoffen handelt es sich um Harnstoff, Salz (NaCl) und einen idealisierten ‘nichtresorbierbaren gelösten Stoff’, der für verschiedene Substanzen gilt, die sich in den CD ansammeln. Die im Modell verwendeten Membranentransportgleichungen beschreiben die Bewegung der gelösten Stoffe durch passive Diffusion, Lösungsmittelaustrag und aktiven Transport sowie Wasserbewegung durch Osmose. Die Modellparameter werden durch veröffentlichte experimentelle Daten beurteilt. Aus digitalen Rechnerlösungen der Modellgleichungen geht hervor, daß sich fast alle experimentellen Beobachtungen, die sich auf die Regulierung der Harnstoffausscheidung beziehen, durch eine Steigerung des Lösungsmittelaustrages des Harnstoffes aus den kortikalen und Nierenrinden-CD erklären lassen. Daher ist die Notwendigkeit, einen aktiven Transport des Harnstoffes von den CD anzunehmen, um die Regulierung der Harnstoffausscheidung zu erklären, überflüssig.
    Notes: Abstract A mathematical model of transport processes in the ascending limbs (a.l.), collecting ducts (c.d.), and surrounding interstitium-capillary plexus (i.c.p.) of the renal medulla has been developed and applied to an investigation of mechanisms which may be involved in renal tubular regulation of urea excretion. Solute and water balance equations for perfectly-mixed compartments in series describe the transport processes in the a.l., c.d., and i.c.p. Solute species considered are urea, salt (NaCl), and an idealised ‘nonreabsorbable solute’ which accounts for miscellaneous substances accumulated in the c.d. The membrane transport equations used in the model describe solute movement by passive diffusion, solvent drag, and active transport; and water movement by osmosis. Model parameters are evaluated from published experimental data. Digital computer solutions of the model equations indicate that virtually all experimental observations pertaining to the regulation of urea excretion can be explained by an increase in the solvent drag of urea from the cortical and medullary c.d. Therefore, the need to postulate an active transport of urea from the c.d. to explain the regulation of urea excretion is obviated.
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