Yaowadee Sarathi. Numerical solutions for a mathematical model of Hematopoiesis dynamics with growth factor-dependent apoptosis and proliferation regulations. Master's Degree(Applied Mathematics). King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok. Central Library. : King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, 2011.
Numerical solutions for a mathematical model of Hematopoiesis dynamics with growth factor-dependent apoptosis and proliferation regulations
Abstract:
Hemotopoiesis is the process by which erythrocytes, leukocytes and
thrombocytes are produced and regulated in the blood stream. At the root of this
process are the hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that can renew themselves, can
differentiate into a variety of specialized cells, can mobilize out of the bone marrow
into circulating blood, and can undergo programmed cell death called apoptosis. The
process is complex, with the cells responding to a wide variety of cytokines and growth
factors (GFs). In this research, we adapt a model of Adimy et al (2008) which consists
of a system of four age-structured, time delay ordinary differential equations for
proliferating and non-proliferating HSC populations and for type I and type II growth
factors. Adimy et al gave some analytical and numerical solutions for the three
populations of non-proliferating stem cells, and type I and type II growth factors. We
study a model consisting of a system of five, age-structured, time-delay, ordinary
differential equations by including an equation for an apoptosis factor for the
proliferating cells and we give detailed analytical solutions (where possible) and
numerical solutions for the four populations. The system is complicated because it
contains three time delays, a time delay before proliferating cells divide into nonproliferating
cells, a time delay before release of type I growth factor, and a time delay
before release of type II growth factor after stimulation by non-proliferating cells.
The equilibrium solutions of the model are investigated and a linearization
method used to analyze their stability. The system has two equilibrium solutions, a
trivial solution with zero HSC populations and a non-trivial solution with non-zero HSC populations. The behavior of the system is investigated both analytically and
numerically for a wide range of values of the three time delays. It is found that the
dynamical behavior is very complicated with at least five types of long-time behavior,
namely, trivial steady state, non-trivial steady state, limit cycle with one local
maximum and minimum per cycle, limit cycle with more than one local maxima and
minima per cycle, and chaotic-type behavior. Analytical formulas are derived for the
Hopf bifurcations from the non-trivial steady state to a limit cycle with one local
maximum and minimum per cycle for some special cases and the results agree with the
numerical simulations. The Matlab software package is used to solve the system of
equations numerically for both the zero time delay case and for non-zero time delay
cases.