Stability and sustained oscillations in a ventricular cardiomyocyte model

Interdisciplinary Sciences – Computational Life Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-18

  Amuzescu, Bogdan ^a   Georgescu, Adelina ^b   Nistor, Gheorghe ^c   Popescu, Marin ^c   Svab, Istvan ^a   Flonta, Maria Luisa ^a   Dan Corlan, Alexandru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITESTI   (Romania)

Author keywords

basins of attraction; discontinuous dynamical systems; Luo Rudy I model; numerical methods for bifurcation; static bifurcation diagram

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CYTOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE; METABOLISM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CALCIUM; HEART VENTRICLES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POTASSIUM;

EID: 84864309427     PISSN: 19132751     EISSN: 18671462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12539-012-0116-y     Document Type: Article

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