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. 1978 May;22(2):155–170. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(78)85481-2

A numerical method to model excitable cells.

R W Joyner, M Westerfield, J W Moore, N Stockbridge
PMCID: PMC1473438  PMID: 656539

Abstract

We have extended a fast, stable, and accurate method for the numerical solution of cable equations to include changes in geometry and membrane properties in order to model a single excitable cell realistically. In addition, by including the provision that the radius may be a function of distance along an axis, we have achieved a general and powerful method for simulating a cell with any number of branched processes, any or all of which may be nonuniform in diameter, and with no restriction on the branching pattern.

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