title: An analysis of the Petri net based model of the human body iron homeostasis process.
abstract: In the paper a Petri net based model of the human body iron homeostasis is presented and analyzed. The body iron homeostasis is an important but not fully understood complex process. The modeling of the process presented in the paper is expressed in the language of Petri net theory. An application of this theory to the description of biological processes allows for very precise analysis of the resulting models. Here, such an analysis of the body iron homeostasis model from a mathematical point of view is given.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 2, 60-965 Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sackmann
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Formanowicz
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Formanowicz
authors.forename: Ina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blazewicz
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D007501:Iron / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological
chemical_list: D007501:Iron