Simulating Action Potential as a Linear Combination of Gating Dynamics

In this research we show that the dynamics of an action potential in a cell can be modeled with a linear combination of the dynamics of the gating state variables. It is shown that the modeling error is negligible. Our findings can be used for simplifying cell models and reduction of computational burden i.e. it is useful for simulating action potential propagation in large scale computations like tissue modeling. We have verified our finding with the use of several cell models.

• S. H. Sabzpoushan

• Linear model
• Action potential
• gating dynamics.

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