The narrow escape problem in a flat cylindrical microdomain with application to diffusion in the synaptic cleft

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 793-816

  Reingruber, Jürgen ^a   Holcman, David ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; Cylindrical microdomain; Diffusion; Mean first passage time; Narrow escape; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIFFUSION;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; CYLINDRICAL MICRODOMAIN; MEAN FIRST PASSAGE TIME; NARROW ESCAPE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 80052197574     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/100807612     Document Type: Article

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