Analysis of a class of models of bursting electrical activity in pancreatic β-cells

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 607-635

  De Vries, Gerda ^a,b   Miura, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bursting electrical activity; Mel'nikov's method; Nonlinear oscillations; Pancreatic cells; Perturbed hamiltonian systems; Plateau fraction

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS;

PANCREATIC CELLS;

CELL MEMBRANES;

EID: 0032049163     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139996301593     Document Type: Article

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