WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
Print ISSN: 1109-2769, E-ISSN: 2224-2880
Volume 11, 2012
Immunopathogenesis in Psoriasis through a Density-Type Mathematical Model
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Abstract: The disease psoriasis occurs as chronic inflammation of skin and appears as scaly red lesions on skin surface. Advent of several immunosuppressive drugs established that the disease stems from immuno-pathogenic disorder in human blood. Cell biological as well as clinical research on the disease reveals that the helper T-cells and other Leucocytes, responsible for human immunity, may lead to psoriasis pathogenesis if produced in plenty at locations close to the dermal region. Research findings also showed that a complex, self-sustaining (cytokine and related) proteins’ network play important role in disease maturation by actually leading to a huge proliferation of epidermal keratinocytes. Disease pathogenesis is identified with such hyperproliferation leading to flaking of skin surface (psoriatic plaques). An excessive generation of nitric oxide by proliferated keratinocytes, through a complex chain of bio-chemical events, is causal to the scaliness of psoriatic plaques. Considering these immunopathogenic mechanisms, we propose and analyse a mathematical time differential model for the disease psoriasis. Outcomes of analysis are consistent with existing cell biological and clinical findings with some new predictions which could be tested further.
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Keywords: Psoriasis, Leucocytes, Cytokines, Epidermal Keratinocytes, Immunopathogenesis, Mathematical Model