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Organizing centers in a cellular excitable medium (English)
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1985
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Excitable media provide much of the subject-matter of physiology, especially of electrophysiology. We simulate excitability in a cubical three-dimensional grid of discrete cells. Topologically distinct organizing centers for self-sustaining rhythmic activity (at period 4) arise from suitable initial conditions. Two are shown: the scroll ring and the linked pair of twisted scroll rings. The first has already been observed in a chemically excitable reagent and possibly in heart muscle; the second, and others of a predicted ''periodic table of organizing centers'', remain to be observed outside computers.
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Excitable media
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electrophysiology
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cubical three-dimensional grid of discrete cells
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self-sustaining rhythmic activity
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scroll ring
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linked pair of twisted scroll rings
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periodic table of organizing centers
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