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JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Volume 62, Issue 1-2, Pages 473-488Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12190-019-01292-9
Keywords
Tumor-immune response; Qualitative analysis; Hopf bifurcation; Numerical simulations
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11871238, 11871060, 61973177]
- Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province of China [182102410021, 182102410067]
- young backbone teacher of Henan Province [2018GGJS148]
- Henan International Joint Laboratory of Behavior Optimization Control for Smart Robots [[2018]19]
- programme of Henan Innovative Research Team of Cooperative Control in Swarm-based Robotics
- self-determined research funds of CCNU from the colleges basic research and operation of MOE [CCNU16JCZX10]
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The competitive interaction of tumor-immune system is very complex. We aim to establish a simple and realistic mathematical model to understand the key factors that impact the outcome of an antitumor response. Based on the principle that lymphocytes undergo two stages of development (namely immature and mature), we develop a new anti-tumor-immune response model and investigate its property and bifurcation. The corresponding sufficient criteria for the asymptotic stabilities of equilibria and the existence of stable periodic oscillations of tumor levels are obtained. Theoretical results indicate that the system orderly undergoes different states with the flow rate of mature immune cells increasing, from the unlimited expansion of tumor, to the stable large tumor-present equilibrium, to the periodic oscillation, to the stable small tumor-present equilibrium, and finally to the stable tumor-free equilibrium, which exhibits a variety of dynamic behaviors. In addition, these dynamic behaviors are in accordance with some phenomena observed clinically, such as tumor dormant, tumor periodic oscillation, immune escape of tumor and so on. Numerical simulations are carried out to verify the results of our theoretical analysis.
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