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We present a mathematical study for the development of Multiple Sclerosis in which a spatio-temporal kinetic { theory} model describes, at the mesoscopic level, the dynamics of a high number of interacting agents. We consider both…
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Cells perform directed motion in response to external stimuli that they detect by sensing the environment with their membrane protrusions. In particular, several biochemical and biophysical cues give rise to tactic migration in the…
Bacteria are able to respond to environmental signals by changing their rules of movement. When we take into account chemical signals in the environment, this behaviour is often called chemotaxis. At the individual-level, chemotaxis…
We introduce mesoscopic and macroscopic model equations of chemotaxis with anomalous subdiffusion for modelling chemically directed transport of biological organisms in changing chemical environments with diffusion hindered by traps or…
This paper investigates a class of chemotaxis systems modeling lethal interactions in a smooth, bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. We examine two distinct cases: (i) a fully parabolic…
This paper concerns a model for tumor cell migration through the surrounding extracellular matrix by considering mass balance phenomena involving the chemical interactions produced on the cell surface. The well-posedness of this model is…
This paper is devoted to constructing approximate solutions for the classical Keller--Segel model governing \emph{chemotaxis}. It consists of a system of nonlinear parabolic equations, where the unknowns are the average density of cells (or…
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