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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Immunol. 2009 Mar 15;182(6):3706–3717. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.0802297

Table I. Parameters varied for Latin hypercube sampling.

Parameter Description1 Default Range Distribution Varied in focused analysis?
αBi Intracellular Mtb growth rate (per 10 minutes) 0.0015 [0.0002, 0.002] Uniform No
αBe Extracellular Mtb growth rate (per 10 minutes) 0.0007 [0.00015, 0.015] Log-Uniform No
pk Probability of Mr killing bacteria 0.0187 [0.01, 0.1] Uniform No
Tactm Probability of Mi activation by Tγ 0.03 [0.0001, 0.1] Log-Uniform No
Mrecr Probability of macrophage recruitment 0.04 [0.01, 0.1] Uniform No
Trecr Probability of T cell recruitment 0.09 [0.01, 0.1] Uniform No
Tmove Prob of a T cell moving onto an occupied micro-compartment 0.02 [0.00001, 0.1] Log-Uniform No
Trrecr Proportion of Treg cells out of all T cells recruited 0.1 [0.01, 0.2] Uniform No
λc Chemokine diffusion rate (cm2 per 0.1 minutes) 6.27×10−7 [1,7]×10−7 Uniform No
δc Chemokine degradation rate (per 0.1 minutes) 0.000916 [0.0005, 0.0015] Uniform No
rT Combined TNF/chemokine threshold for T cell recruitment at a vascular source2 1,767 [0.1,10]×l04 Log-Uniform No
rM Combined TNF/chemokine threshold for Mr recruitment at a vascular source2 6,507 [0.1,10]×l04 Log-Uniform No
sc5 CCL5 production rate (molecules per 10 minutes) 3.55×106 [1,10]×106 Uniform No
s5m Macrophage CCL5 saturation threshold (molecules) 5.79×106 [1,100]×l06 Log-Uniform No
τ5m Macrophage CCL5 threshold (molecules) 2×l04 [1,100]×104 Log-Uniform No
λTNF TNF diffusion rate (cm2 per 0.1 minutes) 6.56×10−7 [1,7]×10−7 Uniform Yes
δTNF TNF degradation rate (per 0.1 minutes) 0.0005 [0.0001, 0.001] Uniform Yes
sTNF TNF production rate (molecules per 10 minutes) 1.80×105 [1,100]×l04 Log-Uniform Yes
papopt Probability of TNF-induced apopt per 10 minute interval 0.04 [0.001, 0.2] Uniform Yes
τTNF3 Macrophage TNF detection threshold (molecules) 10×105 [1,15]×105 Uniform Yes
rMTNF Effect of TNF on Mr recruitment2 676 [10,1000] Log-Uniform Yes
1

All probabilities are per 10 minute interval.

2

Non-dimensional; c.f. II.3.iv-v. of the Agent-Based Model Rules (Supplement 1).

3

τTNF was divided into separate thresholds for activation (τTNFact) and apoptosis (τTNFapopt) in the focused analysis.