Homogenization Results for the Calcium Dynamics in Living Cells

Authors

  • Claudia Timofte University of Bucharest

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11145/242

Abstract

Via the periodic unfolding method, the macroscopic behavior of a non-linear system of coupled reaction-diffusion equations appearing in the modeling of calcium dynamics in living cells is rigorously analyzed.We consider, at the microscale, two reaction-diffusion equations for the concentration of calcium ions in the cytosol and, respectively, in the endo-plasmic reticulum, coupled through a nonlinear interfacial exchange term.Depending on the scaling of this exchange term, various models arise at the limit. In particular, we obtain, at the macroscale, a calcium bidomain model. Such a model is extensively used for describing the dynamics of the calcium ions, which are important intracellular messengers between the cytosol and the endoplasmic reticulum inside the biological cells.The case in which the calcium reacts with the buffering proteins fromВ the cytosol and the endoplasmic reticulum is also addressed.Our results constitute a generalization of those contained in the literature.

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Published

2014-03-26

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Conference Contributions

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