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XB-ART-4025
Phys Rev Lett 2003 Dec 19;9125:258101.
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Sheet excitability and nonlinear wave propagation.

Pando B , Pearson JE , Dawson SP .


Abstract
In the Xenopus laevis oocyte, calcium ion channels are clustered in a thin shell. Motivated by this morphology, we study a general class of reaction-diffusion systems that include most of the well-known models that support wave propagation but restricting excitability to a "sheet" of codimension 1. We find waves that undergo propagation failure with increasing diffusion coefficient and a scaling regime in which the wave speed is independent of it.

PubMed ID: 14754160
Article link: Phys Rev Lett
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