title: A mesoscopic stochastic mechanism of cytosolic calcium oscillations.
abstract: Based on a model of intracellular calcium (Ca(2+)) oscillation with self-modulation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate signal, the mesoscopic stochastic differential equations for the intracellular Ca(2+) oscillations are theoretically derived by using the chemical Langevin equation method. The effects of the finite biochemical reaction molecule number on both simple and complex cytosolic Ca(2+) oscillations are numerically studied. In the case of simple intracellular Ca(2+) oscillation, it is found that, with the increase of molecule number, the coherence resonance or autonomous resonance phenomena can occur for some external stimulation parameter values. In the cases of complex cytosolic Ca(2+) oscillations, each extremum of concentration of cytosolic Ca(2+) oscillations corresponds to a peak in the histogram of Ca(2+) concentration, and the most probability appeared during the bursting plateau level for bursting, but at the largest minimum of Ca(2+) concentration for chaos. For quasi-periodicity, however, there are only two peaks in the histogram of Ca(2+) concentration, and the most probability is located at low concentration state.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China.
authors.forename: Chun-Lian
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Ya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Quan
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Li-Jian
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhan
mesh_terms: D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D020013:Calcium Signaling / Q000502:physiology*; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism*; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D009991:Oscillometry; D013269:Stochastic Processes
chemical_list: D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate; D002118:Calcium