title: Multi-scale models of local control of calcium induced calcium release.
abstract: Calcium-induced-calcium-release in cardiac myocytes is the release of Ca(2+) from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) triggered by Ca(2+) entering the cell through L-type Ca(2+) channels. The Ca(2+) is released through ryanodine receptors which 'sense' local [Ca(2+)] in the small region (the diadic space) positioned between the t-tubules and the SR. The length-scale of a single diad is of the order of 10nm and the diffusion time-scale is of order of 1 micros with each cell containing approximately 10,000 diadic spaces which act independently. However, typically one is interested in Ca(2+) currents at the whole cell level and higher. This is a multi-scale problem and cannot be solved by direct computation. In this paper we develop a general framework for deriving approximate solutions of these models.
authors.affiliation: Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Modeling, The John's Hopkins University School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hinch
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Greenstein
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Winslow
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000502:physiology*; D020746:Calcium Channels, L-Type / Q000502:physiology*; D020013:Calcium Signaling; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000502:physiology; D019837:Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel / Q000378:metabolism; D012519:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D020746:Calcium Channels, L-Type; D019837:Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel; D002118:Calcium