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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Nanobioscience. 2012 Sep;11(3):273–288. doi: 10.1109/TNB.2012.2211891

TABLE I.

Model States

State Description Initial No.
of Cells
Phenotypes
memT Resting CD4+ memory T cell 1·103
Th Active CD4+ T helper cell 0
iTreg Induced T regulatory cell 0
nTreg Active natural T regulatory cell 0
mem_nTreg Resting natural T regulatory cell 0
iDCs Immature ’sampling’ DC in the superficial
LP with access to the Lumen
1000
iDCLP Immature dendritic cell in the LP 1000
eDC Effector dendritic cell in the LP 0
tDC Tolerogenic dendritic cell in the LP 0
eDCL Effector sDC in the lumen 0
tDCL Tolerogenic sDC dendritic cell in the lumen 0
DC Anergic Anergic dendritic cell 0
M0 Undifferentiated macrophage 1·103
Ml Activated inflammatory macrophage 0
M12 M2 recently transitioned from Ml 0
M21 Ml recently transitioned from M2 0
M2 Activated regulatory macrophage 0
EC Healthy epithelial cell 104 [40]
pEC Damaged or pro-inflammatory epithelial
Cell
0
MASource monocytes: MA precursor 105
DCSource monocytes: DC precursor 105
Mem T Source memory T cell in blood 104
ThSource Potential child cell from a proliferating Th 5·105
iTregSource Potential child cell from a proliferating
iTreg
5·105
Locations
B_lumen Commensal bacterium in the lumen 1000
Bf_lumen Foreign bacterium in the lumen 30
B_LP Commensal bacterium in the LP 0
Bf_LP Foreign bacterium in the LP 0
Death
Edead Killed epithelial cell 0
B_dead Killed commensal bacterium 0
Bf_dead Killed foreign bacterium 0