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Discrete Time Versus Continuous Time Approach to the Autoimmune Response

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A discrete time model for the immune regulation recently proposed by Weisbuch and Atlan is extended to continuous coupling coefficients as well as to continuous concentration rates in continuous time. It is shown that depending on the choice of the network parameters typical immune responses can be observed.

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  1. Institut für Zoologie III, Biophysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, D-6500, Mainz, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    K. E. Kürten

  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, D-5000, Köln, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    K. E. Kürten

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  1. Department of Medical Biophysics, Hadassah University Hospital, P.O. Box 12000, IL-51120, Jerusalem, Israel

    Henri Atlan

  2. Faculté de Médecine, Broussait-Hotel Dieu, Université de Paris VI, 15 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, F-75008, Paris, France

    Henri Atlan

  3. The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    Irun R. Cohen

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Kürten, K.E. (1989). Discrete Time Versus Continuous Time Approach to the Autoimmune Response. In: Atlan, H., Cohen, I.R. (eds) Theories of Immune Networks. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83935-1_10

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