Figure 4

Sensitivity analysis of the model to variation in parameters – QSS. Plots of the sensitivity of the muscle uptake rate MUR to variation in the log of key parameters of the model equations; sensitivity to variation in rate of uptake into chylomicrons from intestine, r _c (A), rate of deposition in the liver by albumin, r _la (B), rate of deposition in the liver by LDL, r _ll (C), rate of metabolic degradation in the liver, r _ld (D), rate of uptake into the muscle from albumin, R _ma (E) and the threshold of saturation in the muscle, θ _ma (F). The values of these parameters are relative to the values given in Table 1.