Some mathematical questions in biology : the dynamics of excitable media /

Some mathematical questions in biology : the dynamics of excitable media /

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Bibliographic Details
Meeting name:	Symposium Some Mathematical Questions in Biology (22nd : 1988 : Las Vegas, Nev.)
Imprint:	Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c1989.
Description:	viii, 181 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Lectures on mathematics in the life sciences v. 21
Subject:	Excitation (Physiology) -- Mathematical models -- Congresses. Electrophysiology -- Mathematical models -- Congresses. Heart conduction system -- Mathematical models -- Congresses. Electrophysiology -- Mathematical models. Excitation (Physiology) -- Mathematical models. Heart conduction system -- Mathematical models. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1031136

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Other title:	Dynamics of excitable media.
Other authors / contributors:	Othmer, H. G. (Hans G.), 1943- National Science Foundation (U.S.)
ISBN:	0821811711 (alk. paper)
Notes:	"Proceedings of the 1988 Symposium [on] Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, held at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 4, 1988. This symposium was sponsored by the National Science Foundation"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents:

Resonance and phase-locking in excitable systems
The initiation of the heart beat as a dynamic consensus of electrically coupled pacemaker cells
Collective behaviors of the hippocampal CA3 region
Relay, oscillations, and wave propagation in a model of Dictyostelium discoideum
The use of a Bidomain model for the study of excitable media
Consequences of the cellular, anisotropic structure of myocardium
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