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Bioelectricity
Core principles
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Charge and the electric field
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Electric potential energy
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Capacitor
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Capacitors connected in series and in parallel
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Resistor
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Resistors connected in series and in parallel
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Electric circuits
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Charging a capacitor in an RC circuit
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Discharging a capacitor in an RC circuit
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Practising the core principles
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Electric model of the cell membrane
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Introduction
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The Nernst potential for an ion species
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Simulations of the Nernst potential
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Calculating the Nernst potential
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An electrical analogue of a single ion species and ion channel
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Membrane potential for two ion species and ion channels
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Simulations of the membrane potential for two ion species
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Membrane potential when three or more types of ion channels are involved
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The Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz voltage equation
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Computing the resting membrane potential and membrane properties
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Electric excitability and action potential
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What is an action potential?
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The electric analogue of the model of Hodgkin and Huxley
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Space-clamp and voltage-clamp experiments
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Voltage-dependent conductivity of potassium channels
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Voltage-dependent conductivity of sodium channels
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The model of Hodgkin and Huxley in all its glory
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Simulation of the Hodgkin-Huxley model in R
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Simulation of the Hodgkin-Huxley model
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Refractory period
Passive and activve current flow along an axon
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Passive current flow and the cable equation
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Propagation of an action potential
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Computations about the propagaton of an action potential
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Simulation of several single neuron models
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Hodgkin-Huxley model
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Krinsky-Kokoz-Rinzel model
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Basic Wilson model
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Full Wilson model
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FitzHugh-Nagumo model
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Izhikevich model
Chemical reaction kinetics
Introduction
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Kinetics of the simple chemical reaction A → B
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Simulation of first-order kinetics
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A concrete example of a first-order chemical reaction
Basic principles
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Reaction rate
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Kinetics of an elementary reaction
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An equilibrium reaction
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Kinetics of elementary reactions
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Second-order kinetics
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Kinetics of the reaction 2A → B
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Kinetics of the reaction A + B → C
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Autocatalysis: A + B → 2B
Kinetics of multi-step reactions
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Successive reactions: A → B → C
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Successive reactions:
A → B, B + C → D and A → B, 2B → C
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Dimerization 2A ⇄ B
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Enzymatic reaction kinetics
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Alcohol metabolism
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The Hill equation
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Kinetics of multi-step reactions
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Gene regulation
Introduction
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Introduction
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Gene expression with an activating transcription factor
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Gene expression with an inactivating transcription factor
Dynamical system for proteins
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Gene expression in combination with protein degradation I
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Gene expression in combination with protein degradation II
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Gene expression with negative feedback
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Gene expression with positive feedback
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Gene regulation of oscillations
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Open course materials Various Science Subjects offered by KdVI and SMASH.

Author: André Heck

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