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SUBMITTER: Harish Dharuri
PROVIDER: BIOMD0000000184 | BioModels | 2024-09-02
REPOSITORIES: BioModels
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Journal of theoretical biology 20080214 4
Astrocytes exhibit oscillations and waves of Ca2+ ions within their cytosol and it appears that this behavior helps facilitate the astrocyte's interaction with its environment, including its neighboring neurons. Often changes in the oscillatory behavior are initiated by an external stimulus such as glutamate, recently however, it has been observed that oscillations are also initiated spontaneously. We propose here a mathematical model of how spontaneous Ca2+ oscillations arise in astrocytes. Thi ...[more]