The survival probability of diffusion with killing

Details The survival probability of diffusion with killing The survival probability of diffusion with killing

2005-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0502035v1

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We present a general framework to study the effect of killing sources on moving particles, trafficking inside biological cells. We are merely concerned with the case of spine-dendrite communication, where the number of calcium ions, modeled as random particles is regulated across the spine microstructure by pumps, which play the killing role. In particular, we study here the survival probability of ions in such environment and we present a general theory to compute the ratio of the number of absorbed particles at specific location to the number of killed particles during their sojourn inside a domain. In the case of a dendritic spine, the ratio is computed in terms of the survival probability of a stochastic trajectory in a one dimensional approximation. We show that the ratio depends on the distribution of killing sources. The biological conclusion follows: changing the position of the pumps is enough to regulate the calcium ions and thus the spine-dendrite communication.

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