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Global Dynamics of a Virus-Immune System with Virus-Guided Therapy and Saturation Growth of Virus
Joint Authors
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-18, 18 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-07-09
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
18
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
We considered a piecewise virus-immune dynamic model to investigate the effectiveness of the HIV virus loads-guided structured treatment interruptions (STIs).
To better describe the biological reality, we extended the existing models by taking the carrying capacity of the virus loads into consideration to indicate the saturated growth of virus loads.
We initially investigated the sliding dynamics of the proposed model and then obtained the global dynamics of the proposed model.
Our main results showed that the system can exhibit very complex and diverse dynamic behaviors including a globally asymptotically stable equilibrium, bistable equilibra, and tristable equilibria, depending on the dynamics of the subsystems and the threshold level.
In particular, an interesting result indicated that, with a proper threshold condition, the virus-guided therapy policy can successfully control the virus loads far below its carrying capacity and maintain the activity of the immune system for the case that the effector cells always go to zero without therapy or with continuous therapy.
The finding suggested that the optimal strategy should be individual-based due to coexistence of multiple stable steady states, depending on the threshold conditions and the initial levels of viral loads and effector cells of the patients.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Li, Qian& Xiao, Yanni. 2018. Global Dynamics of a Virus-Immune System with Virus-Guided Therapy and Saturation Growth of Virus. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1207631
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Li, Qian& Xiao, Yanni. Global Dynamics of a Virus-Immune System with Virus-Guided Therapy and Saturation Growth of Virus. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1207631
American Medical Association (AMA)
Li, Qian& Xiao, Yanni. Global Dynamics of a Virus-Immune System with Virus-Guided Therapy and Saturation Growth of Virus. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1207631
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1207631