Figure 5. Nullclines in the
model.
We display the nullclines of the concentration
(blue curve), which can be regarded as the activator, and the fraction of open channels
(brown curve) for the Calcium oscillation model in the deterministic limit [Eqs. (27)–(29)] for the parameter set given in Table 7 and assume that diffusion is switched off. The blue (brown) arrow illustrates the gradient in phase space of the activator (inhibitor) on either side of the nullcline and the fix points are marked with
. We plot an example trajectory (dashed curve) of a larger perturbation from the homogeneous state
. Starting at point
, the system relaxes towards
via a long excursion.