Modelling interactions between host and gut microbiota.
Résumé
Intestinal host-microbiota interactions form a symbiosis mainly regulated at
the intestinal crypt level. These crosstalks play a major role in ensuring the health of the
host. Modelling these interactions is a further step to understand the behaviour of this
ecosystem and determine whether healthy states can be recovered after a deterioration
of the host-microbiota symbiosis. Using a crypt model structured in space and cell
types proposed in [1], we added new components such as inflammatory response at
the epithelial cells scale, mucus production and degradation as well as the presence of
different bacterial families (strict or facultative anaerobic, mucus degrader, pathobiont)
inspired from [2]. We investigate if this model is able to simulate switches from healthy
host-microbiota interactions to chronic inflammation.
1] L. Darrigade et al. A pdmp model of the epithelial cell turn-over in the intestinal
crypt including microbiota-derived regulations. HAL, 2021.
[2] R. Muñoz-Tamayo et al. Mathematical modelling of carbohydrate degradation by
human colonic microbiota. Journal of theoretical biology, 2010.