The method of separation of variables for solving equations describing molecular-motor-assisted transport of intracellular particles in a dendrite or axon

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 464, Issue 2099, 2008, Pages 2867-2886

  Kuznetsov, A V ^a   Avramenko, A A ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Department of Modeling of Heat Transfer Processes in Energy and Heat Engineering Facilities   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Axons and dendrites; Intracellular organelles; Molecular motors; Motor assisted transport; Neurons; Separation of variables

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CYTOLOGY; DENDRITES (METALLOGRAPHY); DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; ISOMERS; LEAD; LINEAR MOTORS; MOTORS; RATE CONSTANTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEPARATION; TELLURIC PROSPECTING;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; AXONS AND DENDRITES; EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIRST-ORDER RATE CONSTANTS; GENERALIZED FOURIER SERIES; INTRACELLULAR ORGANELLES; INTRACELLULAR PARTICLES; KINESIN; KINETIC PROCESSES; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR MOTORS; MOTOR-ASSISTED TRANSPORT; NEURONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; SEPARATION OF VARIABLES; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 52949139480     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2008.0127     Document Type: Article

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