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A dynamic model for failures in biological organisms is proposed and studied both analytically and numerically. Each cell in the organism becomes dead under sufficiently strong stress, and is then allowed to be healed with some probability.…
Since Noble adapted in 1962 the model of Hodgkin and Huxley to fit Purkinje fibres the refinement of models for cardiomyocytes has continued. Most of these models are high-dimensional systems of coupled equations so that the possible…
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