A mathematical model of immune activation with a unified self-nonself concept.

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Published in Front Immunol on December 26, 2013

Authors

Sahamoddin Khailaie1, Fariba Bahrami2, Mahyar Janahmadi3, Pedro Milanez-Almeida4, Jochen Huehn4, Michael Meyer-Hermann5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Systems Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research , Braunschweig , Germany.
2: CIPCE, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran , Tehran , Iran.
3: Neuroscience Research Centre and Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran.
4: Department of Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research , Braunschweig , Germany.
5: Department of Systems Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research , Braunschweig , Germany ; Bio Centre for Life Science, Technische Universität Braunschweig , Braunschweig , Germany.

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