RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Investigating the role of the experimental protocol in phenylhydrazine-induced anemia on mice recovery A1 Gandrillon, O. A1 Crauste, F. A1 Angulo Torga, Óscar K1 Erythropoiesis model K1 Experimental protocol modeling K1 Nonlinear age-structured system AB Production of red blood cells involves growth-factor mediated regulation of erythroid progenitor apoptosis and self-renewal. During severe anemia, characterized by a strong fall of the hematocrit followed by a recovery phase, these controls allow a fast recovery of the hematocrit and survival of the organism. Using a mathematical model of stress erythropoiesis and an ad hoc numerical method, we investigate the respective roles of anemia-inducing phenylhydrazine injections and physiological regulation on the organism’s recovery. By explicitly modeling the experimental protocol, we show that it mostly characterizes the fall of the hematocrit following the anemia and its severeness, while physiological process regulation mainly controls the recovery. We confront our model and our conclusions to similar experiments inducing anemia and show the model’s ability to reproduce several protocols of phenylhydrazine-induced anemia. In particular, we establish a link between phenylhydrazine effect and the severeness of the anemia. PB Elsevier SN 0022-5193 YR 2018 FD 2018 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/42956 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/42956 LA spa NO Journal of Theoretical Biology, January 2018, vol. 437, n. 21. p. 286–298 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 22-nov-2024