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Chin. Phys. B, 2014, Vol. 23(12): 120503    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/23/12/120503
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The effect of cellular aging on the dynamics of spiral waves

Deng Min-Yi (邓敏艺), Chen Xi-Qiong (陈茜琼), Tang Guo-Ning (唐国宁)
College of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
Abstract  Cellular aging can result in deterioration of electrical coupling, the extension of the action potential duration, and lower excitability of the cell. Those factors are introduced into the Greenberg–Hastings cellular automaton model and the effects of the cellular aging on the dynamics of spiral waves are studied. The numerical results show that a 50% reduction of the coupling strength of aging cells has a little influence on spiral waves. If the coupling strength of aging cells equals zero, the ability for the medium to maintain spiral waves will be reduced by approximately 50% when the aging cell ratio increases from 0 to 0.5, where the reduction of cell excitability plays a major role in inducing disappearance of spiral waves. When the relevant parameters are properly chosen, the cellular aging can lead to the meandering of spiral waves, the emergence of the binary spiral waves, and even the disappearance of spiral waves via the stopping rotation or shrinkage of wave. Physical mechanisms of the above phenomena are analyzed briefly.
Keywords:  discrete excitable medium      Greenberg–Hastings model      spiral wave      cellular aging  
Received:  08 May 2014      Revised:  13 July 2014      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  05.45.-a (Nonlinear dynamics and chaos)  
  87.18.Hf (Spatiotemporal pattern formation in cellular populations)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11165004 and 11365003).
Corresponding Authors:  Tang Guo-Ning     E-mail:  tangguoning@mailbox.gxnu.edu.cn

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Deng Min-Yi (邓敏艺), Chen Xi-Qiong (陈茜琼), Tang Guo-Ning (唐国宁) The effect of cellular aging on the dynamics of spiral waves 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 120503

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