Applications of Dynamical Systems in Biology and Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jackson, Trachette (Editor), Radunskaya, Ami (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 158
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Dynamics.; Ergodic theory.; Mathematical physics.; Biomathematics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.

This volume highlights problems from a range of biological and medical applications that can be interpreted as questions about system behavior or control.  Topics include drug resistance in cancer and malaria, biological fluid dynamics, auto-regulation in the kidney, anti-coagulation therapy, evolut...

Table of Contents:

• Anti-Cancer Drug Resistance: A Pre-existing or Emerging Phenomenon?
• Modeling Fluid Flow Induced by Bacterial Carpets
• Modeling Auto regulation in the Kidney
• Modeling Anti-coagulation Therapy
• Mathematical Modeling of Evolutionary Diversification
• Intermittent Preventative Treatment (IPT) and the Spread of Drug Resistance to Malaria
• Stochastic Modeling of the Phototransduction Cascade for Melanopsin
• Clustering in Inhibitory Neural Networks with Nearest Neighbor Coupling
• Modeling the Dynamics of REM Sleep.