On the Chameleonic Behaviour of Cholesterol through a Fractal/Multifractal Model.

On the Chameleonic Behaviour of Cholesterol through a Fractal/Multifractal Model. Comput Math Methods Med. 2020;2020:6217691 Authors: Tesloianu ND, Ghizdovat V, Agop M, Rusu C, Cardoneanu A Abstract An increasing number of studies are beginning to show that both low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol can constitute risk factors for myocardial infarction. Such a behaviour has been called by experts in the field the "chameleonic effect" of cholesterol. In the present paper, a fractal/multifractal model for low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol dynamics is proposed. In such a context, a fractal/multifractal tunneling effect for systems with spontaneous symmetry breaking is analyzed so that if the spontaneous symmetry breaking is assimilated to an inflammation (in the form of a specific scalar potential), then a coupling between two fractal/multifractal states can be observed. These two states, which have been associated to biological structures such as low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein, transfer their states through a fractal/multifractal tunneling effect. Moreover, in our opinion, the widely used notions of "good" and "bad" cholesterol must be redefined as two different states (low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein) of the same biological structure named "cholesterol." In our work, for the first time in the specialized literature, low-density lipopro...
Source: Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine - Category: Statistics Tags: Comput Math Methods Med Source Type: research