On the Sodium Concentration Diffusion with Three-Dimensional Extracellular Stimulation

We deal with the transmembrane sodium diffusion in a nerve. We study a mathematical model of a nerve fibre in response to an imposed extracellular stimulus. The presented model is constituted by a diffusion-drift vectorial equation in a bidomain, that is, two parabolic equations defined in each of t...

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Main Authors: Luisa Consiglieri, Ana Rute Domingos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2011-01-01
Series:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/862813
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description We deal with the transmembrane sodium diffusion in a nerve. We study a mathematical model of a nerve fibre in response to an imposed extracellular stimulus. The presented model is constituted by a diffusion-drift vectorial equation in a bidomain, that is, two parabolic equations defined in each of the intra- and extra-regions. This system of partial differential equations can be understood as a reduced three-dimensional Poisson-Nernst-Planck model of the sodium concentration. The representation of the membrane includes a jump boundary condition describing the mechanisms involved in the excitation-contraction couple. Our first novelty comes from this general dynamical boundary condition. The second one is the three-dimensional behaviour of the extracellular stimulus. An analytical solution to the mathematical model is proposed depending on the morphology of the excitation.
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spelling doaj-art-38d4683d2cad488daca4fde42c231c8a2025-08-20T03:55:11ZengWileyInternational Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences0161-17121687-04252011-01-01201110.1155/2011/862813862813On the Sodium Concentration Diffusion with Three-Dimensional Extracellular StimulationLuisa Consiglieri0Ana Rute Domingos1Departamento de Matemática e CMAF, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, PortugalDepartamento de Matemática e CMAF, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, PortugalWe deal with the transmembrane sodium diffusion in a nerve. We study a mathematical model of a nerve fibre in response to an imposed extracellular stimulus. The presented model is constituted by a diffusion-drift vectorial equation in a bidomain, that is, two parabolic equations defined in each of the intra- and extra-regions. This system of partial differential equations can be understood as a reduced three-dimensional Poisson-Nernst-Planck model of the sodium concentration. The representation of the membrane includes a jump boundary condition describing the mechanisms involved in the excitation-contraction couple. Our first novelty comes from this general dynamical boundary condition. The second one is the three-dimensional behaviour of the extracellular stimulus. An analytical solution to the mathematical model is proposed depending on the morphology of the excitation.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/862813
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On the Sodium Concentration Diffusion with Three-Dimensional Extracellular Stimulation
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
title On the Sodium Concentration Diffusion with Three-Dimensional Extracellular Stimulation
title_full On the Sodium Concentration Diffusion with Three-Dimensional Extracellular Stimulation
title_fullStr On the Sodium Concentration Diffusion with Three-Dimensional Extracellular Stimulation
title_full_unstemmed On the Sodium Concentration Diffusion with Three-Dimensional Extracellular Stimulation
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title_sort on the sodium concentration diffusion with three dimensional extracellular stimulation
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