Conference Proceedings

Nonlinear models of cells exposed to electromagnetic fields

CJ Thompson, DC Bardos, YS Yang, KH Joyner

Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism | IEEE | Published : 1998

Abstract

We examine several models for cells exposed to EMF where the source of nonlinearity is membrane conductance. These include nonlinear cable and modified Fitzhugh-Nagumo models of cylindrical cells. Membrane response is typically quasi-linear except for combinations of large amplitude and low frequency where we observe narrow bands of subharmonic, quasi-periodic, and chaotic behaviour over a range of frequencies.

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