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Calcium Buffering: Models of Ca2+ Dynamics and Steady-State Approximations

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Schmidt, H. (2013). Calcium Buffering: Models of Ca2+ Dynamics and Steady-State Approximations. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_177-1

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