Stability Analysis of a Model of Atherogenesis: An Energy Estimate Approach II
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KUS-C1-016-04Date
2010Permanent link to this record
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This paper considers modelling atherogenesis, the initiation of atherosclerosis, as an inflammatory instability. Motivated by the disease paradigm articulated by Russell Ross, atherogenesis is viewed as an inflammatory spiral with positive feedback loop involving key cellular and chemical species interacting and reacting within the intimal layer of muscular arteries. The inflammation is modelled through a system of non-linear reaction-diffusion-convection partial differential equations. The inflammatory spiral is initiated as an instability from a healthy state which is defined to be an equilibrium state devoid of certain key inflammatory markers. Disease initiation is studied through a linear, asymptotic stability analysis of a healthy equilibrium state. Various theorems are proved giving conditions on system parameters guaranteeing stability of the health state and conditions on system parameters leading to instability. Among the questions addressed in the analysis is the possible mitigating effect of anti-oxidants upon transition to the inflammatory spiral. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.Citation
Ibragimov AI, McNeal CJ, Ritter LR, Walton JR (2010) Stability Analysis of a Model of Atherogenesis: An Energy Estimate Approach II. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine 11: 67–88. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17486700802713430.Sponsors
This publication is based on work supported in part by Award No. KUS-C1-016-04, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Publisher
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10.1080/17486700802713430
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