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The Effect of a Linear Tuning between the Antigenic Stimulations of CD4+ T Cells and CD4+ Tregs

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dc.contributor.authorYusuf, Aliyu
dc.contributor.authorFigueiredo, Isabel
dc.contributor.authorAfsar, Atefeh
dc.contributor.authorBurroughs, Nigel
dc.contributor.authorPinto, Alberto
dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Bruno
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-13T17:16:14Z
dc.date.available2022-01-13T17:16:14Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractWe study the equilibria of an Ordinary Differencial Equation (ODE) system where CD4 + effector or helper T cells and Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are present. T cells trigger an immune response in the presence of their specific antigen. Regulatory T cells (Tregs) play a role in limiting auto-immune diseases due to their immune-suppressive ability. Here, we present explicit exact formulas that give the relationship between the concentration of T cells, the concentration of Tregs, and the antigenic stimulation of T cells, when the system is at equilibria, stable or unstable. We found a parameter region of bistability, limited by two thresholds of antigenic stimulation of T cells (hysteresis). Moreover, there are values of the slope parameter of the tuning for which an isola-center bifurcation appears, and, for some other values, there is a transcritical bifurcation. We also present time evolutions of the ODE system.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipA.A.P., B.M.P.M.O., and A.A.Y. would like to thank the financial support by the ERDF—European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Program for Competitiveness and Internationalization—COMPETE 2020 Program within project “POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961”, and by National Funds through the FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) as part of project UID/EEA/50014/2013, project “Dynamics, Optimization and Modelling”, with reference PTDC/MAT-NAN/6890/2014, project “Modelling, Dynamics and Games”—MDG—with the reference PTDC/MAT-APL/31753/2017, and project “NanoSTIMA—Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing: Towards Integrated Multimodal Health Monitoring and Analytics”/NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016, financed by the North Portugal Regional Operational Program (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement. A.A.P. is also thankful for the financial support received through the Special Visiting Researcher Program (Bolsa Pesquisador Visitante Especial—PVE) “Dynamics, Games and Applications”, with reference 401068/2014-5 (call: MEC/MCTI/CAPES/CNPQ/FAPS) at IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Acknowledgments The authors thank the anonymous referees of for their valuable comments. A.A.P., B.M.P.M.O., A.A.Y., and A.A. thank LIAAD-INESC TEC for all the support. Part of this research was done during visits by the authors to IMPA (Brazil) and University of Warwick (United Kingdom), and we thank them for their hospitality.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.doi10.3390/math8020293pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/19470
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherMDPIpt_PT
dc.relationPOCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961pt_PT
dc.relationNORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016pt_PT
dc.relationMEC/MCTI/CAPES/CNPQ/FAPSpt_PT
dc.relationModelling, dynamics and games
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/8/2/293/htmpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectCD4+ T cellspt_PT
dc.subjectCD4+ Tregspt_PT
dc.subjectBifurcationpt_PT
dc.subjectEigenvaluespt_PT
dc.subjectODE modelpt_PT
dc.titleThe Effect of a Linear Tuning between the Antigenic Stimulations of CD4+ T Cells and CD4+ Tregspt_PT
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oaire.citation.issue2pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage293pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleMathematicspt_PT
oaire.citation.volume8pt_PT
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