http://alanrendall.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/excitable-systems-and-spiral-waves/ A mathematician thinks aloud Thu, 09 May 2013 07:10:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://alanrendall.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/excitable-systems-and-spiral-waves/#comment-1185 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:13:59 +0000 http://alanrendall.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-1185 [...] about establishes a surprising link between two topics I have discussed before, chemotaxis and spiral waves. The idea is that the motion of the leading edge of cells such as neutrophils are driven by spiral [...]

]]> http://alanrendall.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/excitable-systems-and-spiral-waves/#comment-124 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:00:32 +0000 http://alanrendall.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-124 [...] a diffusion term for one of the unknowns ( in the system below), a subject touched on in a previous post. A different ODE reduction can be obtained by looking at traveling wave solutions. The equations in [...]

]]> http://alanrendall.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/excitable-systems-and-spiral-waves/#comment-80 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:39:59 +0000 http://alanrendall.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-80 [...] of mathematical biology. It is an example of the concept of an excitable system mentioned in a previous post. Now we know that the changes of permeability of the membrane are due to ion channels which [...]

]]> http://alanrendall.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/excitable-systems-and-spiral-waves/#comment-43 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:11:42 +0000 http://alanrendall.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-43 [...] Hydrobates A mathematician thinks aloud « Excitable systems and spiral waves [...]

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