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. 1997 Dec;73(6):2897–2906. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78318-8

Calcium waves in a model with a random spatially discrete distribution of Ca2+ release sites.

A E Bugrim 1, A M Zhabotinsky 1, I R Epstein 1
PMCID: PMC1181195  PMID: 9414204

Abstract

We study the propagation of intracellular calcium waves in a model that features Ca2+ release from discrete sites in the endoplasmic reticulum membrane and random spatial distribution of these sites. The results of our simulations qualitatively reproduce the experimentally observed behavior of the waves. When the level of the channel activator inositol trisphosphate is low, the wave undergoes fragmentation and eventually vanishes at a finite distance from the region of initiation, a phenomenon we refer to as an abortive wave. With increasing activator concentration, the mean distance of propagation increases. Above a critical level of activator, the wave becomes stable. We show that the heterogeneous distribution of Ca2+ channels is the cause of this phenomenon.

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