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Modeling calcium dynamics in cardiac myocytes: stochastic vs deterministic approaches
Zeyun Yu
Department of Mathematics
UCSD
Abstract
There are basically two fundamental problems regarding calcium
dynamics in cardiac myocytes. One is the calcium release and the other
is the calcium propagation. The first problem is related to the local
calcium dynamics and occurs in a very small area called dyads that
consist of cell (or T-tubular) membrane, junctional sarcoplasmic
reticulum (jSR) membrane, and associated channels (proteins). Due to
the very small number of calcium ions existing in this area, the
stochastic methods have been proved to be more appropriate for this
particular problem. On the other hand, the calcium propagation is
effective at the cell-wide level, hence the PDE-based deterministic
approaches are used to model how calcium concentration dynamically
changes inside the cell and causes the cell contraction.
I will give some background on the modeling problems and talk about
the previous work on how to tackle these two problems using both
stochastic and deterministic approaches.
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