Modeling electric field transfer of excitation at cell junctions

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 130-143

  Sperelakis, Nicholas ^a   Ramasamy, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CALCULATION; CELL JUNCTION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NERVE NET; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036879783     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2002.1175149     Document Type: Review

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