Emergence of travelling waves in smooth nerve fibres

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 263-272

  Jacquir, S ^a   Binczak, S ^a   Gauthier, J P ^a   Bilbault, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Nerve fibres; Projected dynamics; Stationarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749109668     PISSN: 19371632     EISSN: 19371179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdss.2008.1.263     Document Type: Article

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