Bifurcation diagrams for the moments of a kinetic type model of keloid–immune system competition

Abstract: The mathematical modelling of the keloid disease triggered by a virus has been recently investigated by one of the authors, Bianca (2011) , where it was shown that the model is able to depict the emerging behaviours which occur during the keloid formation. This paper deals with further numerical investigations of that model related to the bifurcation analysis of the measurable macroscopic variables associated to each functional subsystem. It is shown that there exists a critical value of a bifurcation parameter separating situations where the immune system controls the keloid formation from those where malignant effects are not contrasted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]