This is the readme for the model for the papers:

1. Lavrentovich M, Hemkin S (2008) A mathematical model of
spontaneous calcium(II) oscillations in astrocytes. J Theor Biol
251:553-60 doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.12.011

see also Lavrentovich M, Hemkin S (2009) Corrigendum to “A
mathematical model of spontaneous calcium(II) oscillations in
astrocytes” [J. Theor. Biol. 251 (2008) 553–560] Journal of
Theoretical Biology 260(2):332 doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.06.005

2. Manninen T, Havela R, Linne ML (2017) Reproducibility and
comparability of computational models for astrocyte calcium
excitability Front. Neuroinform.

This jupyter notebook was contributed by Dr T Manninen.

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notebook.

This code reproduces (the top trace in below) the trace in Figure 3 in
the 2008 paper: