A three-dimensional mathematical model of active signal processing in axons

Computing and Visualization in Science

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 409-418

  Xylouris, Konstantinos ^a   Queisser, Gillian ^a   Wittum, Gabriel ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D model; Action potential; Dendrites; Hodgkin huxley; Mathematical model; Neuron; Signal propagation

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; ACTION POTENTIALS; ACTIVE MODELS; BIOLOGICAL SETTINGS; CELL MORPHOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR POTENTIAL; FINITE VOLUME APPROACH; HODGKIN-HUXLEY; HODGKIN-HUXLEY MODELS; MULTIGRID SOLVER; NEURON CELLS; NEWTON'S METHODS; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; STATE OF THE ART; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME-DEPENDENT CHANGES; TIME-STEPPING;

CELL MEMBRANES; DENDRITES (METALLOGRAPHY); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; NEURONS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 80051665198     PISSN: 14329360     EISSN: 14330369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00791-011-0155-7     Document Type: Article

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