| Literature DB >> 2522657 |
G Reibnegger1, D Fuchs, A Hausen, E R Werner, G Werner-Felmayer, M P Dierich, H Wachter.
Abstract
A mathematical analysis is presented for several simple dynamical systems that might be considered as crude descriptions for the situation when an immune system retrovirus, immune cells, and normal autonomously replicating pathogens interact. By stability analysis of the steady-state solutions, the destabilizing effect of the immune system retrovirus is described. The qualitative behavior of the solutions depending on the system parameters is analyzed in terms of trajectories moving in a phase space in which the axes are defined by the population numbers of the interacting biological entities.Mesh:
Year: 1989 PMID: 2522657 PMCID: PMC286839 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.6.2026
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205