Incoherent feedforward motifs as immune change detectors
Abstract
We speculate that incoherent feedforward loops may be phenomenologically involved in self/nonself discrimination in immune-infection and immune-tumor interactions, acting as \"change detectors\". In turn, this may result in logarithmic sensing (Weber phenomenon) and even scale invariance (fold-change detection).
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