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Chapter 8 Modeling Intracellular Calcium Waves and Sparks
Gregory D. Smith, John E. Pearson and Joel E. Keizer

8.1 Microfluorometric measurements
8.2 A model of the fertilization calcium wave
8.3 Including calcium buffers in spatial models
8.4 The effective diffusion coefficient
8.5 Simulation of a fertilization calcium wave
8.6 Simulation of a traveling front
8.7 Calcium waves in the immature Xenopus oocyte
8.8 Simulation of a traveling pulse
8.9 Simulation of a kinematic wave
8.10 Spark-mediated calcium wave
8.11 The fire-diffuse-fire model
8.12 Modeling localized calcium elevations
8.13 Steady-state localized calcium elevations
8.13.1 The steady-state excess buffer approximation (EBA)
8.13.2 The steady-state rapid buffer approximation (RBA)
8.13.3 Complementarity of the steady-state EBA and RBA
8.14 Exercises
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