Buffering and total calcium levels determine the presence of oscillatory regimes in cardiac cells

Miquel Marchena; Blas Echebarria; Yohannes Shiferaw; Enrique Alvarez-Lacalle

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007728

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Buffering and total calcium levels determine the presence of oscillatory regimes in cardiac cells

Miquel Marchena,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain
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Blas Echebarria,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0503-1781

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Yohannes Shiferaw,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Physics Department, California State University, Northridge, California 91330, USA
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Enrique Alvarez-Lacalle

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6824-6857

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Buffering and total calcium levels determine the presence of oscillatory regimes in cardiac cells

Miquel Marchena,
Blas Echebarria,
Yohannes Shiferaw,
Enrique Alvarez-Lacalle

Published: September 24, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007728

About the Authors

Miquel Marchena

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain

Blas Echebarria

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0503-1781

Yohannes Shiferaw

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Physics Department, California State University, Northridge, California 91330, USA

Enrique Alvarez-Lacalle

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6824-6857

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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