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From the time we are children we are told that we should drink milk because it is an important source of calcium (Ca2+), and that Ca2+ is vital for a strong bone structure. What we do not hear as frequently is that Ca2+ is one of the most important cellular messengers in the human body [Alberts et al., 2002]. In particular, Ca2+ controls cell death, neural signaling, secretion of different chemical substances and the contraction of cells in the heart. The latter is the focus of this chapter.
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Hake, J. (2012). A coupled stochastic and deterministic model of Ca2+ dynamics in the dyadic cleft. In: Logg, A., Mardal, KA., Wells, G. (eds) Automated Solution of Differential Equations by the Finite Element Method. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 84. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23099-8_33
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