Final flush treatment model

Introduction

This model follow the healthy person model. We want to modeling the treatment in the duodenum.

Observations

Once our genetically modified bacteria are released in the duodenum, they produce siderophores to chelate the solved iron, thus making it unavailable for intestinal absorption. Then, they eventually flush out of the duodenum. The main hypothesis in this model is that the bacteria don't colonize the duodenum : they only flow through.
The goal of this model is to measure how efficient could this form of treatment be. Because too much parameters remain unknown, it is a theoretical simulation which will not give any numerical results.

Goals

Assumptions

• Our bacteria don't settle in the duodenum
• No regulation in the patient's iron absorption
• Constant iron flow
• Homogeneous fluid
• The bacterial quantity is constant
• The bacterial natural absorption is insignificant compared to the chelation
• The patient ingests 20mg of iron per day (Guideline Daily Amounts)

Materials and methods

A : Total quantity of iron absorbed by the duodenum (mol)
S : Quantity of solubilized iron (mol)
P : Total quantity of enterobactin produced by our population of bacteria (mol)
Q : Total quantity of chelated iron (mol)
N : Number of bacteria

The graph on the right explains the reasoning: for instance, the arrow with a + between N and P means that the variation of P has a positive linear term in N.

Results

Figure 1 : Iron Absorption in the duodenum with and without treatment.

Figure 1 represent the iron absorbed by the duodenum during a meal. We can see the reduction of iron absorption in the duodenum

Figure 2 : Iron in the duodenum during the simulation. The grey strip represent the presence of the bacteria in the duodenum.

Figure 2 represent iron disolved in the chyme. This graph point out the influence of bacteria on the middle. The blue curve decrease significantly under the bacteria flux. That underline the fact that the treatment don't affect the absorption directly. After 150 secondes, chyme is no longer in the duodenum, thus the iron absorption is reduce in both cases.Baptiste: En fait je suis pas sûr que ça soit exactement ça, mais faudrait l'expliquer en tout cas même si c'est un artefact.