Title :
Excitable systems in cell motility
Author :
Iglesias, Pablo A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Hodgkin and Huxley´s award of the Nobel prize for their studies on action potentials in neurons. This research opened a new field of applied mathematics, the study of excitable systems and excitable media. Recent years have seen several reports suggesting that the migration of certain cells is governed by excitable systems. In this paper, I review certain aspects of the mathematics of excitable systems focusing on their possible role in describing cell motility.
Keywords :
cell motility; reviews; action potentials; cell migration; cell motility; excitable media; excitable systems; neurons; review; Bifurcation; Mathematical model; Negative feedback; Polymers; Stability analysis; Stochastic processes;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control (CDC), 2013 IEEE 52nd Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Firenze
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5714-2
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2013.6759973
