Influence of Pro- and Anti-inflammatory Cytokines during Pathogenesis Atherosclerosis: A Dynamical Approach

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This study proposes a reaction-diffusion model of atherosclerosis to analyze the dynamical effects of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines, finding that inflammation behaves differently when anti-inflammatory cytokines exhibit pro-inflammatory characteristics.

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The paper develops a dynamical reaction–diffusion model of atherosclerosis that includes immune cells, pro-inflammatory cytokines, and anti-inflammatory cytokines, explicitly motivated by observations that cytokines such as TGF-β and IL-6 can sometimes exhibit pro-inflammatory-like behavior. The authors analyze the mathematical model by proving existence and uniqueness, identifying three equilibrium states (non-inflammatory, chronic, and coexistence), and determining their local stability; they further use Bellman and Cooke’s theorem to support global stability at the coexistence equilibrium. Analytical and numerical simulations compare how varying parameters—such as macrophage reduction rates due to anti-inflammatory cytokines, inhibition time, and the fraction of anti-inflammatory cytokines behaving pro-inflammatorily—changes inflammatory dynamics. This work is not explicitly about endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match related to inflammatory cytokines.

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The role of anti-cytokines in atherosclerosis is to reduce the inflammation in the intima. In some situations, certain anti-inflammatory cytokines like TGF-beta and IL-6 have shown the characteristics like a pro-inflammatory cytokines, which are showing different nature. In this study, a dynamical atherosclerosis model is proposed in the form of reaction-diffusion equation with consideration of immune cells, pro-inflammatory cytokines and anti-inflammatory cytokines. The existence and uniqueness is discussed for reaction dynamical system. The three equilibrium points, non-inflammatory, chronic and coexistence, and their local stability are also determined for the model. Bellman and Cooke’s theorem is applied to illustrate the global stability at the coexistence equilibrium point. The effects of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines have discussed. The analytical and numerical studies evidently indicate that inflammation behaves differently when a certain amount of anti-inflammatory cytokines will behave like pro-inflammatory cytokines. The numerical simulations are demonstrated for different impact of reduction rate of macrophages due to presence of anti-inflammatory cytokines, inhibition time, and the portion of anti-inflammatory cytokines behaving like pro-inflammatory cytokines through graphically.
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In some situations, certain anti-inflammatory cytokines like TGF-beta and IL-6 have shown the characteristics like a pro-inflammatory cytokines, which are showing different nature. In this study, a dynamical atherosclerosis model is proposed in the form of reaction-diffusion equation with consideration of immune cells, pro-inflammatory cytokines and anti-inflammatory cytokines. The existence and uniqueness is discussed for reaction dynamical system. The three equilibrium points, non-inflammatory, chronic and coexistence, and their local stability are also determined for the model. Bellman and Cooke’s theorem is applied to illustrate the global stability at the coexistence equilibrium point. The effects of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines have discussed. The analytical and numerical studies evidently indicate that inflammation behaves differently when a certain amount of anti-inflammatory cytokines will behave like pro-inflammatory cytokines. The numerical simulations are demonstrated for different impact of reduction rate of macrophages due to presence of anti-inflammatory cytokines, inhibition time, and the portion of anti-inflammatory cytokines behaving like pro-inflammatory cytokines through graphically. Reaction-diffusion equation Immune Cells Pro and Anti inflammatory cytokines ox-LDL Bellman-Cooke’s Theorem Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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