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In this chapter we model the changes of the physical state of a cell in response to electrical impulses from its surroundings. A neuron picks up possible signals from one or all of its several dendritic branches and transmits these received (electrical) signals to its terminal where the signal is amplified and transmitted across a synapse to the next nerve cell. We explore the conditions under which signals are amplified or disappear.
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Brown D, Rothery P (1993) Models in biology: mathematics, statistics and computing. Wiley, Chichester, pp 320–326
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Hannon, B., Ruth, M. (2014). Signal Transmission. In: Modeling Dynamic Biological Systems. Modeling Dynamic Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05615-9_11
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