Long-Lasting Sparks: Multi-Metastability and Release Competition in the Calcium Release Unit Network.
Calcium (Ca) sparks are elementary events of biological Ca signaling. A normal Ca spark has a brief duration in the range of 10 to 100 ms, but long-lasting sparks with durations of several hundred milliseconds to seconds are also widely observed. Experiments have shown that the transition from norma...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-01-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4701461?pdf=render |