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Spatial trigger waves: positive feedback gets you a long way
Trigger waves are a recurring biological phenomenon involved in transmitting information quickly and reliably over large distances. Well-characterized examples include action potentials propagating along the axon of a neuron, calcium waves in various tissues, and mitotic waves in Xenopus eggs. Here...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The American Society for Cell Biology
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230609/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25368427 http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E14-08-1306 |
Sumario: | Trigger waves are a recurring biological phenomenon involved in transmitting information quickly and reliably over large distances. Well-characterized examples include action potentials propagating along the axon of a neuron, calcium waves in various tissues, and mitotic waves in Xenopus eggs. Here we use the FitzHugh-Nagumo model, a simple model inspired by the action potential that is widely used in physics and theoretical biology, to examine different types of trigger waves—spatial switches, pulses, and oscillations—and to show how they arise. |
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