Research Article
Optimal Treatment Strategies for HIV with Antibody Response
Table 1
Definitions and values for parameters.
| Parameter | Constants | Values with unit |
| | Rate growth of uninfected CD4+T | 0.01 d−1 | | Rate apoptosis of uninfected CD4+T | d−1 | | Parameter involving amount of antigen | 400 | | Parameter involving apoptosis of CD4+T | 350 | | Death rate of uninfected CD4+T | 0.02 d−1 | | Death rate of infected CD4+T | 0.25 d−1 | | Death rate of virus | 0.95 d−1 | | Death rate of CTL | 1.5 d−1 | | Death rate of antibodies | 0.005 d−1 | | Rate virus deleted by CTL | mm3 d−1 | | Rate CD4+T becomes infected by virus | mm3 d−1 | | Rate latently infected convert to actively infected | mm3 d−1 | | Rate actively infected cells deleted by CTL | mm3 d−1 | | Rate growth of CTL | mm3 d−1 | | Rate growth of antibody | mm3 d−1 | | Efficiency of each CTL | 0.01 d−1 | | Rate CTL suppresses virus |
0.075 d−1 | | Average of viral particles | 1000 | | Source term for uninfected CD4+T | 20 mm3 d−1 | | Source term for CTL | 10 mm3 d−1 | | Fraction of latently/infected CD4+T | 0.5 | | Multiple of death rate of antibodies | 10 |
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