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Calcium waves in rat cardiac myocytes underlie the principles of self-organization in excitable media

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The propagation dynamics of traveling calcium waves in rat cardiac myocytes have been investigated by means of confocal laser scanning microscopy. We found, that the calcium waves behave as reaction-diffusion waves, demonstrating the velocity-curvature relationship as well as the dispersion relation. We conclude that thes spatio-temporal pattern of calcium are governed by the properties of an excitable medium.

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  1. Julius Bernstein Institute of Physiology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, D-06097, Halle, Germany

    Manfred Wussling

  2. Institut für Experimentelle Physik, Abteilung Biophysik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Universitätsplatz 2, D-39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Thomas Mair

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Wussling, M., Mair, T. (1999). Calcium waves in rat cardiac myocytes underlie the principles of self-organization in excitable media. In: Müller, S.C., Parisi, J., Zimmermann, W. (eds) Transport and Structure. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 532-532. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0104225

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