کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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979454 | 1480190 | 2008 | 5 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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We study the effects of the rate of replacement of dead cells by either healthy cells or by infected cells on HIV infection dynamics through a graph-theoretic approach. Our framework takes into account a reasonable amount of the immune action to any pathogen and the local cell interactions that occur in the lymph nodes. Our results, in an extremal case where dead cells are highly likely to be replaced by healthy cells, show that all cells become healthy in a finite number of steps of given order and infection stops propagating. Further, for this extremal case, we give an algebraic formula for the number of infected cells at any given time in the HIV progression. We also find a sufficient condition, determined by dead cell replacement rate, which guarantees that an infected patient is continually positive, and give bounds on the number of infected, healthy and dead cells at any given time. We apply our theoretical results to a recently proposed model of the HIV infection dynamics.
Journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications - Volume 387, Issues 5–6, 15 February 2008, Pages 1200–1204