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The paper deals with the analysis of signaling pathways aimed at uncovering new regulatory processes regulating cell responses. First, general issues of comparing simulation and experimental data are discussed, and various aspects of data normalization are covered. Then, a model of a particular signaling pathway, induced by Interferon-\beta, is briefly introduced. It serves as an example illustrating how mathematical modeling can be used for inferring the structure of a regulatory system governing the dynamics of intracellular processes. In this pathway, experimental results suggest that a hitherto unknown process is responsible for a decrease in the levels of one of the important molecules used in the pathway. Then, equilibrium points of the model are analyzed, allowing the rejection of all but one explanation of the phenomena observed experimentally. Numerical simulations confirm that the model can mimic the dynamics of the processes in the pathway under consideration. Finally, some remarks about the applicability of the method based on an analysis of equilibrium points are made.
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The paper is concerned with application of mathematical modeling to the analysis of signaling pathways. Two issues, deterministic modeling of gene transcription and model-driven discovery of regulatory elements, are dealt with. First, the biological background is given and the importance of the stochastic nature of biological processes is addressed. The assumptions underlying deterministic modeling are presented. Special emphasis is put on describing gene transcription. A framework for including unknown processes activating gene transcription by means of first-order lag elements is introduced and discussed. Then, a particular interferon-ß induced pathway is introduced, limited to early events that precede activation of gene transcription. It is shown how to simplify the system description based on the goals of modeling. Further, a computational analysis is presented, facilitating better understanding of the mechanisms underlying regulation of key components in the pathway. The analysis is illustrated by a comparison of simulation and experimental data.
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2002
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tom Vol. 3
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The paper is concerned with development of optimal treatment protocols that take into account both action of several drugs and the evolution of drug resistance. It is a result of analysis of evolution of drug resistance in cancer population but presented methodology can be applied in any case involving drug resistance stemming from gene amplification. First, a biological background is given. In subsequent sections of the paper, the developed technique is presented and some early analytical results, which form a basis for more precise modeling, are shown. Afterwards, the model description is transformed into a vector integro-differential equation, which makes it possible to define necessary conditions of optimal solution to the minimization problem arising from the search for the optimal treatment. Finally, some remarks on the model applicability are presented.
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The paper is focused on application of sensitivity methods to analysis of signaling pathway models. Two basic methods are compared: local, based on standard sensitivity functions, and global, based on Sobol indices. Firstly, a general outline of modeling of signaling pathways by means of ordinary differential equations is briefly described. Afterwards, the methods of sensitivity analysis, known from literature, are introduced and illustrated with a simple example of a dynamical system of the second order. Subsequently, the analysis of the p53/Mdm2 regulatory module, which is a key element of any pathway involving p53 protein, is presented. The results of this analysis suggest that no single method should be chosen for investigation of any signaling pathway model but several of them should be applied to answer important questions about sources of heterogeneity in cells behavior, robustness of signaling pathways and possible molecular drug targets.
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Drug resistance and phase dependence have been regarded by many authors as the main obstacles against successful cancer chemotherapy. We propose a model which takes into account both these phenomena and give a tool to use phase specificity as an advantage rather than a fault and make it resistant of drug resistance. It combines models that so far have been studied separately, taking into account both the phenomenon of gene amplification and drug specificity in chemotherapy, in their different aspects. The mathematical description is given by an infinite dimensional state equation with a system matrix, the form of which enables decomposition of the model into two interacting subsystems. While the first one, of finite dimension, can have any form, the second one is infinite dimensional and tridiagonal.
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We characterize the asymptotic behavior of telomeres shortening of which is supposed to be the mechanism of aging and death. The problem is described by models in the form of infinitely many differential linear first order equations, resulting from branching random walk processes used to represent the evolution of particles in this problem, under different assumptions dealing with stochastic characterization of the process. We use control theoretical machinery based on Laplace transforms, Tauberian theorems and transfer loop reduction.
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In this paper we study some properties of infinite models of the controlled evolution of drug resistance. We combine asymptotic techniques used in previous studies of similar models with methods of control theory and of semigroup theory. It enables us to find conditions for stability of the model both when the sensitive population is annihilated and when there exists a permanent influx from the sensivite compartment into drug resistant one. The conditions are expressed in terms of relationships between amplification and deamplification ratios as well as average life times of cells and intensity of anticancer drug action.
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