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NONLINEAR ANALYSIS-REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS
卷 14, 期 3, 页码 1621-1633出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2012.10.021
关键词
HIV-1; CD4(+) T cells; Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte; Reverse transcriptase inhibitor; Asymptotic stability; Time delay; Cell lysis; Time series solutions
资金
- Government of India, Ministry of Science and Technology, Mathematical Science Office [SR/S4/MS: 558/08]
- Indian National Science Academy
- Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK
Infection with HIV-1, degrading the human immune system and recent advances of drug therapy to arrest HIV-1 infection, has generated considerable research interest in the area. Bonhoeffer et al. (1997) [1], introduced a population model representing long term dynamics of HIV infection in response to available drug therapies. We consider a similar type of approximate model incorporating time delay in the process of infection on the healthy T cells which, in turn, implies inclusion of a similar delay in the process of viral replication. The model is studied both analytically and numerically. We also include a similar delay in the killing rate of infected CD4(+) T cells by Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte (CTL) and in the stimulation of CTL and analyse two resulting models numerically. The models with no time delay present have two equilibria: one where there is no infection and a non-trivial equilibrium where the infection can persist. If there is no time delay then the non-trivial equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable. Both our analytical results (for the first model) and our numerical results (for all three models) indicate that introduction of a time delay can destabilize the non-trivial equilibrium. The numerical results indicate that such destabilization occurs at realistic time delays and that there is a threshold time delay beneath which the equilibrium with infection present is locally asymptotically stable and above which this equilibrium is unstable and exhibits oscillatory solutions of increasing amplitude. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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