Dynamic model for failures in biological systems

Details Dynamic model for failures in biological systems Dynamic model for failures in biological systems

2005-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0506029v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Cell Behavior

To appear in Europhys. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2004-10544-3

A dynamic model for failures in biological organisms is proposed and studied both analytically and numerically. Each cell in the organism becomes dead under sufficiently strong stress, and is then allowed to be healed with some probability. It is found that unlike the case of no healing, the organism in general does not completely break down even in the presence of noise. Revealed is the characteristic time evolution that the system tends to resist the stress longer than the system without healing, followed by sudden breakdown with some fraction of cells surviving. When the noise is weak, the critical stress beyond which the system breaks down increases rapidly as the healing parameter is raised from zero, indicative of the importance of healing in biological systems.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Dynamic model for failures in biological systems does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Dynamic model for failures in biological systems, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Dynamic model for failures in biological systems will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-293468