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Transport Equations in Biology
05 Sep 2008-
TL;DR: In this paper, the renewal equation is used to describe the structure of a population from a point of view of population balance equations, which is an asymptotic view of the population dynamics.
Abstract: From differential equations to structured population dynamics.- Adaptive dynamics an asymptotic point of view.- Population balance equations: the renewal equation.- Population balance equations: size structure.- Cell motion and chemotaxis.- General mathematical tools.
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TL;DR: This paper explores in detail a number of variations of the original Keller–Segel model of chemotaxis from a biological perspective, contrast their patterning properties, summarise key results on their analytical properties and classify their solution form.
Abstract: Mathematical modelling of chemotaxis (the movement of biological cells or organisms in response to chemical gradients) has developed into a large and diverse discipline, whose aspects include its mechanistic basis, the modelling of specific systems and the mathematical behaviour of the underlying equations. The Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis (Keller and Segel in J Theor Biol 26:399–415, 1970; 30:225–234, 1971) has provided a cornerstone for much of this work, its success being a consequence of its intuitive simplicity, analytical tractability and capacity to replicate key behaviour of chemotactic populations. One such property, the ability to display “auto-aggregation”, has led to its prominence as a mechanism for self-organisation of biological systems. This phenomenon has been shown to lead to finite-time blow-up under certain formulations of the model, and a large body of work has been devoted to determining when blow-up occurs or whether globally existing solutions exist. In this paper, we explore in detail a number of variations of the original Keller–Segel model. We review their formulation from a biological perspective, contrast their patterning properties, summarise key results on their analytical properties and classify their solution form. We conclude with a brief discussion and expand on some of the outstanding issues revealed as a result of this work.
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...Detailed reviews can be found in the survey of Horstmann [40], and in the textbooks of Suzuki [98] and Perthame [87]....
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...A further source of recent results are found in the chapter “Cell Motion and Chemotaxis” in the book of Perthame [87], which includes an elegant and short proof for the existence of blow-up solutions using the second spatial moment of the particle distribution....
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...As mentioned earlier, the minimal model (M1) has globally existing solutions in one space dimension [75] and a threshold phenomenon with blow-up solutions in higher dimensions [40,87,98]....
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TL;DR: It is shown that in adult humans new neurons integrate in the striatum, which is adjacent to this neurogenic niche, and this findings demonstrate a unique pattern of neurogenesis in the adult human brain.
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TL;DR: For the quasilinear parabolic Keller-Segel system with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, this article showed that the classical solutions to the problem are uniformly in time bounded, provided that D ( u ) satisfies some technical conditions such as algebraic upper and lower growth estimates as u → ∞.
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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that cells add a constant volume each generation, irrespective of their newborn sizes, conclusively supporting the so-called constant Δ model, which was introduced for E. coli and recently revisited.
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TL;DR: In this paper, coupled chemotaxis (Navier and Stokes) systems generalizing the prototype have been proposed to describe the collective effects arising in bacterial suspensions in fluid drops, and they have been applied to the model of collective effects of bacterial suspensions.
Abstract: In the modeling of collective effects arising in bacterial suspensions in fluid drops, coupled chemotaxis-(Navier–)Stokes systems generalizing the prototype have been proposed to describe the spont
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