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Collective dynamics of ion channels in biological membranes
1Department of Biophysics and Chemical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
General Physiology and Biophysics
|February 1, 1996
Abstract:
Master equation was used to describe the dynamics of coupled ion channels in biological membranes. From the stationary solution it was found that at a critical value of coupling strength the system undergoes phase transition of the second order, which can be of biological relevance.