Software for the pancreatic beta-cell
The computer programs below are listed according to the articles in which they appear. They run with the XPPAUT computer software. XPPAUT is free, and runs on Unix, Linux, and Windows machines. It can be downloaded from the website of Bard Ermentrout .

• Bertram, Smolen, Sherman, Mears, Atwater, Martin, and Soria
  "A role for Calcium Release-Activated Current (CRAC) in Cholinergic Modulation of Electrical Activity in Pancreatic Beta-Cells", Biophysical Journal, vol. 68, pp. 2323-2332, 1995. BJ_95.ode


• Mears, Sheppard, Atwater, Rojas, Bertram, and Sherman
  "Evidence that Calcium Release-activated Current Mediates the Biphasic Electrical Activity of Mouse Pancreatic Beta-Cells", Journal of Membrane Biology, vol. 155, pp. 47-59, 1997. JMB_97.ode


• Bertram, Previte, Sherman, Kinard, and Satin
  "The Phantom Burster Model for Pancreatic Beta-Cells", Biophysical Journal, vol. 79, pp. 2880-2892, 2000. BJ_00.ode


• Goforth, Bertram, Khan, Zhang, Sherman, and Satin
  "Calcium-Activated K+ Channels of Mouse Beta-Cells are Controlled by Both Store and Cytoplasmic Ca2+: Experimental and Theoretical Studies", Journal of General Physiology, vol. 120, pp. 307-322, 2002. BJ_02


• Zhang, Goforth, Bertram, Sherman, and Satin
  "The Ca2+ Dynamics of Isolated Mouse Beta-Cells and Islets: Implications for Mathematical Models", Biophysical Journal, vol. 84, pp. 2852-2870, 2003. BJ_03


• Bertram and Sherman
  "A Calcium-Based Phantom Bursting Model for Pancreatic Islets", Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, vol. 66, pp. 1313-1344, 2004. BMB_04.ode


• Bertram, Satin, Zhang, Smolen, and Sherman
  "Calcium and Glycolysis Mediate Multiple Bursting Modes in Pancreatic Islets", Biophysical Journal, vol. 87, pp. 3074-3087, 2004.
  BJ_04a.ode


• Bertram and Sherman
  "Filtering of Calcium Transients by the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Pancreatic Beta-Cells", Biophysical Journal, vol. 87, pp. 3775-3785, 2004. BJ_04b


• Wierschem and Bertram
  "Complex Bursting in Pancreatic Islets: A Potential Glycolytic Mechanism", Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 228, pp. 513-521, 2004. JTB_04.ode


• Sherman and Bertram
  "Integrative Modeling of the Pancreatic Beta-Cell", in Wiley Interscience Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics, Part 3 Proteomics, M. Dunn (ed.), Section 3.8, Systems Biology, R. L. Winslow (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005. Wiley_05


• Pedersen, Bertram, and Sherman
  "Intra- and Inter-Islet Synchronization of Metabolically Driven Insulin Secretion", Biophysical Journal, vol. 89, pp. 107-119, 2005. BJ_05


• Bertram, Pedersen, Luciani, and Sherman
  "A Simplified Model for Mitochondrial ATP Production", Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 243, pp. 575-586, 2006. JTB_06.ode


• Bertram, Satin, Pedersen, Luciani, Sherman
  "Interaction of Glycolysis and Mitochondrial Respiration in Metabolic Oscillations of Pancreatic Islets", Biophysical Journal, vol. 92, pp. 1544-1555, 2007. BJ_07


• Bertram and Arceo
  "A Mathematical Study of the Differential Effects of Two SERCA Isoforms on Calcium Oscillations in Pancreatic Islets", Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, vol. 70, pp. 1251-1271, 2008. BMB_08


• Zhang, Fendler, Peercy, Goel, Bertram, Sherman, and Satin
  "Long Lasting Synchronization of Calcium Oscillations by Cholinergic Stimulation in Isolated Pancreatic Islets", Biophysical Journal, vol. 95, pp. 4676-4688, 2008. synch_08.ode


• Fendler, Zhang, Satin, and Bertram
  "Synchronization of Pancreatic Islet Oscillations by Intrapancreatic Ganglia: A Modeling Study", Biophysical Journal, vol. 97, pp. 722-729, 2009. BJ_09


• Bertram, Budu-Grajdeanu, Jafri
  "Using Phase Relations to Identify Potential Mechanisms for Metabolic Oscillations in Isolated Beta-Cell Mitochondria", Islets, vol. 1, pp. 87-94, 2009. Islets_09


• Merrins, Fendler, Zhang, Sherman, Bertram, Satin
  "Metabolic Oscillations in Pancreatic Islets Depend on the Intracellular Calcium Level but Not Calcium Oscillations", Biophysical Journal, vol. 99, pp. 76-84, 2010. BJ_10


• Watts, Tabak, Zimliki, Sherman, Bertram
  "Slow Variable Dominance and Phase Resetting in Phantom Bursting", Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 276, pp. 218-228, 2011. JTB_11


• Teka, Tsaneva-Atanasova, Bertram, Tabak
  "From Plateau to Pseudo-Plateau Bursting: Making the Transition", Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, vol. 73, pp. 1292-1311, 2011. BMB_11


• Zhang, Daou, Truong, Bertram, Roper
  "Synchronization of Mouse islets of Langerhans by Glucose Waveforms", American Journal of Physicology, vol. 301, pp. E742-E747, 2011. AJP_11b


• Merrins, Bertram, Sherman, Satin
  "Phosphofructo-2-kinase/Fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase Modulates Oscillations of Pancreatic Islet Metabolism", PLoS One, 7(4):e34036, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034036, 2012. PLOS_12