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ArticleJournal of immunological methods2014

Bayesian immunological model development from the literature: example investigation of recent thymic emigrants.

Tyson H Holmes, David B Lewis

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Article in Journal of immunological methods, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tyson H HolmesStanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305-5718, USA. Electronic address: tholmes@stanford.edu.
David B LewisDepartment of Pediatrics, Stanford Immunology Program, and the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infectious Disease, Stanford University School of Medicine, CCSR Building, Room 3215A, 269 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5366, USA. Electronic address: dblewis@stanford.edu.
Stanford University · US

Funding

Recent Thymic Emigrants of the CD4 T-cell LineageR01AI083757 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LEWIS, DAVID BRAM · 2010 to 2014
$2.2M
Transitional and Naive CD4 T cells and B cells in Infant Vaccine ResponsesR01AI100121 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LEWIS, DAVID BRAM · 2012 to 2016
$2.0M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI-083757NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI083757NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI-100121NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI100121
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bayesian estimation techniques offer a systematic and quantitative approach for synthesizing data drawn from the literature to model immunological systems. As detailed here, the practitioner begins with a theoretical model and then sequentially draws information from source data sets and/or published findings to inform estimation of model parameters. Options are available to weigh these various sources of information differentially per objective measures of their corresponding scientific strengths. This approach is illustrated in depth through a carefully worked example for a model of decline in T-cell receptor excision circle content of peripheral T cells during development and aging. Estimates from this model indicate that 21 years of age is plausible for the developmental timing of mean age of onset of decline in T-cell receptor excision circle content of peripheral T cells.

Indexed as

Models, ImmunologicalAgingAlgorithmsBayes TheoremCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesComputer SimulationHumansMarkov ChainsMonte Carlo MethodReceptors, Antigen, T-CellThymus GlandReceptors, Antigen, T-CellBayesian estimationHuman T-cell developmentImmunological modelNaïve CD4 T cellRecent thymic emigrantT-cell receptor excision circle

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PMID25179832
PMCPMC4259859
OpenAlexW2064038886

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