Abstract
Mathematical models are useful tools to describe the dynamics of infection and predict the role of possible drug combinations. In this paper, we present an analysis of a hepatitis B virus (HBV) model including cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and antibody responses, under distributed feedback control, expressed as an integral form to predict the effect of a combination treatment with interleukin-2 (IL-2). The method presented in this paper is based on the symmetry properties of Cauchy matrices C(t, s), which allow us to construct and analyze the stability of corresponding integro-differential systems.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 166 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-12 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Symmetry |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2021 |
Keywords
- Cauchy matrix
- Exponential stability
- Feedback control
- Functional differential equations
- Hepatitis B
- Immune system
- Integro-differential systems