IL-2 sensitivity and exogenous IL-2 concentration gradient tune the productive contact duration of CD8(+) T cell-APC: a multiscale modeling study.

Background: The CD8(+) T cell immune response fights acute infections by intracellular pathogens and, by generating an immune memory, enables immune responses against secondary infections. Activation of the CD8(+) T cell immune response involves a succession of molecular events leading to modifications of CD8(+) T cell population. To understand the endogenous and exogenous mechanisms controlling the activation of CD8(+) T cells and to investigate the influence of early molecular events on the long-term cell population behavior, we developed a multiscale computational model.

Mathematical analysis of a model for the growth of the bovine corpus luteum.

The corpus luteum (CL) is an ovarian tissue that grows in the wound space created by follicular rupture. It produces the progesterone needed in the uterus to maintain pregnancy. Rapid growth of the CL and progesterone transport to the uterus require angiogenesis, the creation of new blood vessels from pre-existing ones, a process which is regulated by proteins that include fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2).