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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Nanobioscience. 2012 Sep;11(3):273–288. doi: 10.1109/TNB.2012.2211891

TABLE IV.

Parameter Values

Symbol Parameter Value
Birth/death
µE Turnover time of epithelial cells 12hrs [40]
µT Time a T cell remains active 5days [47]
µM0 Time a macrophage remains active 75 days
µd Time a dendritic cell remains active 1 day [43]
µdL Time a sDC remains active 1 day [43]
µce Probability that pEcell is killed by
Inflammatory factors
pT Average number of daughter cells produced
by a proliferating T cell
500 [49]
pTr Average number of daughter cells produced
by a proliferating nTreg
0
Migration
r Average number of monocytes recruited by
a single eDC, Ml, or pEcell
10
t Average number of resting T cells recruited
by a single eDC, Ml, or pEcell
10
βP Probability that bacteria will enter the lumen
upon contact with a pEcell
1
Contact/interactions
αT Probability of memory T cell stimulation 1
αTr Probability of memory nTreg stimulation 1
νT fraction of active T cells that become memory
T cells
0.1 [50]
ν 12 Probability that M1 switches to M 2
(a1Ra1R+i1N)y1
ν21 Probability that M2 switches to M1
(a2Ni2R+a2N)y2
a 1 co-efficient of ν 12 for activators 1
i 1 co-efficient of ν 12 for inhibitors 1
Y 1 exponent of ν 12 4
a 2 co-efficient of ν 21 for activators 1
i 2 co-efficient of ν 21 for inhibitors 4
y 2 exponent of ν 21
υνBM probability that microfloral bacteria induces
inflammatory phenotype in macrophages
0
νBD probability that microfloral bacteria induces
inflammatory phenotype in dendritic cells
0
νBs probability that microfloral bacteria induces
inflammatory phenotype in ‘sampling’
dendritic cells
0
νEC Probability that EC transitions to pEcell
upon contact with inflammatory factors
0.05
νEB Probability that EC is damaged by
microbial toxins
1 [51]