Modeling Endocrine Regulation of the Menstrual Cycle Using Delay Differential Equations

This chapter develops a mathematical model describing blood levels of five hormones important for regulating the menstrual cycle of adult women. The resulting system of 13 nonlinear, delay, differential equations with 44 parameters correctly predicts the serum concentrations of ovarian and pituitary hormones found in the

10.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................200 10.2 Biological Preliminaries ...............................................................................202 10.3 Model Development ......................................................................................204