The stability of traveling calcium pulses in a pancreatic acinar cell

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 177, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 242-258

  Romeo, Mónica M ^a   Jones, Christopher K R T ^b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium waves; Stability; T point bifurcation; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CALCIUM; DIFFUSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYMES; MUSCLE; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

PANCREATIC ACINAR CELLS;

CELLS;

EID: 0037445396     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00772-8     Document Type: Article

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