Calcium3D: A visual software package for the simulation of calcium buffered diffusion in neuroendocrine cells

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-180

  Carrera, Germán ^a   Gil, Amparo ^a   Segura, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calcium dynamics; Monte Carlo methods; Probabilistic description; User friendly interface

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CALCIUM; CELL MEMBRANES; CELLS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFUSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUROLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

CALCIUM DYNAMICS; PROBABILISTIC DESCRIPTION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE; USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

BUFFER;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROSECRETORY CELL;

CALCIUM; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 27144495438     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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