Global coupling in excitable media provides a simplified description of mechanoelectrical feedback in cardiac tissue

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Alvarez Lacalle, E ^a   Echebarria, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

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Indexed keywords

BASIN OF ATTRACTIONS; CARDIAC TISSUES; EXCITABLE MEDIAS; GLOBAL COUPLINGS; LINEAR ELASTICS; MECHANO-ELECTRIC FEEDBACKS; OSCILLATORY REGIMES; SYSTEM SIZES; SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS;

EID: 65349182937     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.031921     Document Type: Article

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