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Figure  8: Effects of altering PCa on spiral-wave meandering. The evolution of the tip-trajectory is shown for 120 ms (a) and 600 ms (b). For the standard configuration (a.iv),(b.iv) PCa = 0.25 nA/mM while for the other plots: (a.i),(b.i) PCa= 0.1 nA/mM, (a.ii),(b.ii) PCa = 0.125 nA/mM, (a.iii),(b.iii) PCa= 0.1875 nA/mM, (a.v),(b.v) PCa= 0.3 nA/mM, (a.vi),(b.vi) PCa = 0.35 nA/mM. In plot (c) the corresponding restitution curves are shown. The horizontal solid bar in (a) and (b) is 1 mm long. The simulations were run in a 20 mm×20 mm homogenous medium in which a counter-clockwise rotating spiral was initiated.