Enhanced Synchronization of Intercellular Calcium Oscillations by Noise Contaminated Signals

<正> We consider the dynamics of locally coupled calcium oscillation systems,each cell is subjected to extracel-lular contaminated signal,which contains common sub-threshold signal and independent Gaussian noise.It is found thatintermediate noise can enhance synchronized oscillations of calcium ions,where the frequency of noise-induced oscilla-tions is matched with the one of sub-threshold external signal.We show that synchronization is enhanced as a result ofthe entrainment of external signal Furthermore,the effect of coupling strength is considered.We find above-mentionedphenomenon exists only when coupling strength is very small.Our findings may exhibit that noise can enhance thedetection of feeble external signal through the mechanism of synchronization of intercellular calcium ions.