Modeling and Simulation in Medicine and the Life Sciences

Series Preface vii Preface ix Introduction 1(4) The Heart and Circulation 5(70) Plan of the Circulation 5(2) Volume, Flow, and Pressure 7(1) Resistance and Compliance Vessels 8(2) The Heart as a Pair of Pumps 10(4) Mathematical Model of the Uncontrolled Circulation 14(4) Balancing the two Sides of the Heart and the two Circulations 18(2) The Need for External Circulatory Control Mechanisms 20(1) Neural Control: The Baroreceptor Loop 21(4) Autoregulation 25(3) Changes in the Circulation Occurring at Birth 28(5) Dynamics of the Arterial Pulse 33(6) Computer Simulation of Pulsatile Blood Flow 39(24) Suggestions for Computing Projects Concerning the Circulation 63(5) Annotated References 68(7) Exercises 69(6) Gas Exchange in the Lungs 75(34) The Ideal Gas Law and the Solubility of Gases 76(2) The Equations of Gas Transport in one Alveolus 78(4) Gas Transport in the Lung 82(1) Optimal Gas Transport 83(2) Mean Alveolar and Arterial Partial Pressures 85(2) Transport of O2 87(4) Computer Solution of the Equations for O2 Transport in the Lung 91(13) Computing Projects Concerning Oxygen Transport by the Lung 104(3) Annotated References 107(2) Exercises 107(2) Control of Cell Volume and Electrical Properties of Cell Membrances 109(38) Osmotic Pressure and the Work of Concentration 109(4) A Simple Model of Cell Volume Control 113(2) The Movement of Ions Across Cell Membranes 115(3) The Interaction of Electrical and Osmotic Effects 118(6) The Hodgkin-Huxley Equations for the Nerve Action Potential 124(8) Computer Simulation of the Nerve Action Potential 132(7) Suggestions for Computing Projects Concerning the Nerve Impulse 139(4) Annotated References 143(4) Exercises 144(3) The Renal Countercurrent Mechanism 147(24) The Nephron 147(3) Dynamics of Na+ and H2O: Transport along the Renal Tubules 150(2) The Loop of Henle 152(3) The Juxtaglomerular Apparatus and the Renin-Angiotensin System 155(2) The Distal Tubule and Collecting Duct: Concentrating and Diluting Modes 157(1) Remarks on the Significance of the Juxtaglomerular Apparatus 158(1) How Nephrons do Better Than a Factor of e 159(7) Computing Project on the Interacting Nephron Population Model 166(2) Annotated References 168(3) Exercises 169(2) Muscle Mechanics 171(22) The Force-Velocity Curve 171(2) Crossbridge Dynamics 173(6) Computer Simulation of Crossbridge Attachment and Detachment 179(9) Suggested Computing Projects on Crossbridge Dynamics 188(2) Annotated References 190(3) Exercises 190(3) Neural Systems 193(22) Guttman's Experiments on Phase Locking 195(2) Biological Rhythms 197(3) Modulating the Clock on the Wall 198(1) Biological Clocks 199(1) Electronic Clocks: Voltage-Controlled Oscillators 200(1) Model Neural Networks 200(7) A Thalamocortical Circuit 201(2) Hippocampus 203(4) Annotated References 207(8) Exercises 208(7) Population Dynamics 215(52) Bacterial Cultures 216(6) Batch Culture Growth 217(4) Least-Squares Estimation of the Growth Rate 221(1) Age Structures 222(8) Cohort Analysis 223(1) Birth Rates 224(4) Age Distributions 228(2) Microbial Ecology 230(7) Uptake of Nutrients 230(2) Growth and Quiescence 232(2) Biofilms and Growth in a Continuous Flow 234(2) A Solutivory Food Chain 236(1) Nonlinear Reproduction Curves 237(11) Compensatory Growth: Verhulst's Model 238(5) Chaos 243(5) Controlling Populations 248(8) Cell Synchronization 249(1) Cohort Dynamics near the Limits of Growth 250(2) Harvesting: Economics of Populations 252(4) Annotated References 256(11) Exercises 257(10) Genetics 267(28) Population Genetics 269(8) Natural Selection 269(3) Slow Selection 272(1) Genotype Frequencies 273(2) Random Genetic Drift 275(2) Biotechnology 277(14) Plasmids 277(4) Control of Plasmid Replication 281(5) Regulation of Gene Expression 286(4) Stoichiometry of Metabolic Pathways 290(1) Annotated References 291(4) Exercises 292(3) A Theory of Epidemics 295(16) Spread of Infection Within a Family 296(4) The Threshold of an Epidemic 300(3) Predicting the Severity of an Epidemic 303(3) Annotated References 306(5) Exercises 306(5) Patterns of Population Growth and Dispersal 311(24) Random Walks and the Process of Diffusion 312(9) Random Walks 313(1) Boundary Conditions 314(2) Sample Paths 316(1) Diffusion Approximation 317(1) Two-Dimensional Diffusion 318(1) Sample Paths in Two-Dimensions 319(1) Numerical Solutions: The Method of Lines 320(1) Bacterial Growth on a Petri Plate 321(4) Diffusion of a Drop of Substrate 321(2) Bacterial Growth Due to Diffusing Nutrition 323(1) Growth Patterns Due to Two Nutrients 323(2) Concluding Remarks 325(1) Annotated References 326(9) Exercises 326(9) Appendix A Getting Started with Matrices and MATLAB 335(8) Appendix B Background on Random Processes 343(6) Index 349