Model with two species A and B, with flow in a plasma compartment and exchange with an interstitial fluid compartment with A converting to B reversibly.

Description

    This is a two compartment model (plasma and isf) exchange model with flow in the plasma compartment. Both spaces are instantaneously well mixed. A and B reversibly convert to each other in the isf space. The isf space can also be used as a cell space. Flow, Fp, and exchange rates, PSa and PSb, have the same units, ml/(g*min) (milliliters per minute per gram of tissue). These units are used in the physiological terminology to relate them to fluxes per gram of tissue.
    The conversion rates have the same units, ml/(g*min). Ga2b is the conversion rate of A going to B, and Gb2a is the conversion rate of B becoming A.
    The steady state solutions for constant inflow of A are solved implicitly, using the final value of the input concentration (assumed to have been constant).

Further reading:

Equations

     Ordinary Differential Equations

     Initial Conditions

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