Calcium spikes in basal dendrites (Kampa and Stuart 2006)

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This model was published in Kampa & Stuart (2006) J Neurosci 26(28):7424-32. The simulation creates two plots showing voltage and calcium changes in basal dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal neurons during action potential backpropagation. created by B. Kampa (2006)
Reference:
1 . Kampa BM, Stuart GJ (2006) Calcium spikes in basal dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal neurons during action potential bursts. J Neurosci 26:7424-32 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell;
Brain Region(s)/Organism:
Cell Type(s): Neocortex U1 L5B pyramidal pyramidal tract GLU cell;
Channel(s): I L high threshold; I T low threshold; I A; I Sodium; I Potassium;
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Receptor(s):
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Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Dendritic Action Potentials; Active Dendrites; Action Potentials; Synaptic Integration; Calcium dynamics;
Implementer(s): Kampa, Bjorn M [Bjoern.Kampa at anu.edu.au];
Search NeuronDB for information about:  Neocortex U1 L5B pyramidal pyramidal tract GLU cell; I L high threshold; I T low threshold; I A; I Sodium; I Potassium;
COMMENT
T-type Ca channel 
ca.mod to lead to thalamic ca current inspired by destexhe and huguenrd
Uses fixed eca instead of GHK eqn
changed from (AS Oct0899)
changed for use with Ri18  (B.Kampa 2005)
ENDCOMMENT

INDEPENDENT {t FROM 0 TO 1 WITH 1 (ms)}

NEURON {
	SUFFIX it
	USEION ca READ eca WRITE ica
	RANGE m, h, gca, gbar
	RANGE minf, hinf, mtau, htau, inactF, actF
	GLOBAL  vshift,vmin,vmax, v12m, v12h, vwm, vwh, am, ah, vm1, vm2, vh1, vh2, wm1, wm2, wh1, wh2
}

PARAMETER {
	gbar = 0.0008 (mho/cm2)	: 0.12 mho/cm2
	vshift = 0	(mV)		: voltage shift (affects all)

	cao  = 2.5	(mM)	        : external ca concentration
	cai		(mM)
						 
	v 		(mV)
	dt		(ms)
	celsius		(degC)
	vmin = -120	(mV)
	vmax = 100	(mV)

	v12m=50         	(mV)
	v12h=78         	(mV)
	vwm =7.4         	(mV)
	vwh=5.0         	(mV)
	am=3         	(mV)
	ah=85         	(mV)
	vm1=25         	(mV)
	vm2=100         	(mV)
	vh1=46         	(mV)
	vh2=405         	(mV)
	wm1=20         	(mV)
	wm2=15         	(mV)
	wh1=4         	(mV)
	wh2=50         	(mV)


}


UNITS {
	(mA) = (milliamp)
	(mV) = (millivolt)
	(pS) = (picosiemens)
	(um) = (micron)
	FARADAY = (faraday) (coulomb)
	R = (k-mole) (joule/degC)
	PI	= (pi) (1)
} 

ASSIGNED {
	ica 		(mA/cm2)
	gca		(pS/um2)
	eca		(mV)
	minf 		hinf
	mtau (ms)	htau (ms)
	tadj
}
 

STATE { m h }

INITIAL { 
	trates(v+vshift)
	m = minf
	h = hinf
}

BREAKPOINT {
        SOLVE states
        gca = gbar*m*m*h
	ica = gca * (v - eca)
} 

LOCAL mexp, hexp

PROCEDURE states() {
        trates(v+vshift)      
        m = m + mexp*(minf-m)
        h = h + hexp*(hinf-h)
	VERBATIM
	return 0;
	ENDVERBATIM
}


PROCEDURE trates(v) {  
                      
        LOCAL tinc
        TABLE minf, mexp, hinf, hexp
	DEPEND dt	
	FROM vmin TO vmax WITH 199

	rates(v): not consistently executed from here if usetable == 1

        tinc = -dt 

        mexp = 1 - exp(tinc/mtau)
        hexp = 1 - exp(tinc/htau)
}


PROCEDURE rates(v_) {  
        LOCAL  a, b

	minf = 1.0 / ( 1 + exp(-(v_+v12m)/vwm) )
	hinf = 1.0 / ( 1 + exp((v_+v12h)/vwh) )

	mtau = ( am + 1.0 / ( exp((v_+vm1)/wm1) + exp(-(v_+vm2)/wm2) ) ) 
	htau = ( ah + 1.0 / ( exp((v_+vh1)/wh1) + exp(-(v_+vh2)/wh2) ) ) 
}