Software for simulating calcium-triggered exocytotic processes

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Carrera, Germán ^a   Gil, Amparo ^a   Segura, Javier ^a   Soria, Bernat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b CABINER   (Spain)

Author keywords

Modeling of exocytosis; Monte Carlo methods

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; EXOCYTOSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE ENDING; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY VESICLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CALCIUM; CHROMAFFIN CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXOCYTOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33847074158     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00082.2006     Document Type: Article

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