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Basophil Activation Test for Investigation of IgE-Mediated Mechanisms in Drug Hypersensitivity
Published on: September 16, 2011
A discrete mathematical model applied to human basophil activation
F Nkobetchou1, Y Cherruault, J Sainte-Laudy
1Laboratoire Medimat, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
In this paper we present a model for the histamine negative feedback on the human basophil degranulation and another one for the feed-forward of these basophils on the extra-cellular histamine. These two models allow us to suggest a characterisation of the incubation time.
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