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  1. Article

    Open Access

    A unifying model to estimate the effect of heat stress in the human innate immunity during physical activities

    Public health is threatened by climate change and extreme temperature events worldwide. Differences in health predispositions, access to cooling infrastructure and occupation raises an issue of heat-related he...

    Alva Presbitero, Valentin R. Melnikov, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya in Scientific Reports (2021)

  2. Chapter and Conference Paper

    Detecting Critical Transitions in the Human Innate Immune System Post-cardiac Surgery

    Coronary artery bypass grafting with cardiopulmonary bypass activates the human innate immune system (HIIS) and invokes a vigorous inflammatory response that is systemic. This massive inflammatory reaction ca...

    Alva Presbitero, Rick Quax in Computational Science – ICCS 2020 (2020)

  3. Article

    Open Access

    Game of neutrophils: modeling the balance between apoptosis and necrosis

    Neutrophils are one of the key players in the human innate immune system (HIIS). In the event of an insult where the body is exposed to inflammation triggering moieties (ITMs), neutrophils are mobilized toward...

    Alva Presbitero, Emiliano Mancini, Filippo Castiglione in BMC Bioinformatics (2019)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Reproducibility of Two Innate Immune System Models

    In this paper we present the first step towards the development of a mathematical model of human immune system for advanced individualized healthcare, where medication plan is fine-tuned for each patient to f...

    Alva Presbitero, Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya in Digital Transformation and Global Society (2016)