A mathematical model of mast cell response to acupuncture needling

作者:Deleuze Yannick*
来源:Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 2013, 351(3-4): 101-105.
DOI:10.1016/j.crma.2013.02.003

摘要

We introduce a new model of mast cell response to acupuncture needling based on the Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis. The needle manipulation induces the release of a chemoattractant by the mast cells. We show, in a simplified case, that blow-up of the solution occurs in finite time for large initial data concentrated around the acupoint. In those conditions, blow-up is the result of aggregation of cells and could indicate the efficiency of the acupuncture manipulation of the needle at one acupoint.

  • 出版日期2013-2