NMDA subunit effects on Calcium and STDP (Evans et al. 2012)

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Accession:145917
Effect of NMDA subunit on spike timing dependent plasticity.
Reference:
1 . Evans RC, Morera-Herreras T, Cui Y, Du K, Sheehan T, Kotaleski JH, Venance L, Blackwell KT (2012) The effects of NMDA subunit composition on calcium influx and spike timing-dependent plasticity in striatal medium spiny neurons. PLoS Comput Biol 8:e1002493 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell;
Brain Region(s)/Organism:
Cell Type(s): Neostriatum medium spiny direct pathway GABA cell;
Channel(s): I Na,t; I L high threshold; I T low threshold; I A; I h; I K,Ca; I Calcium; I A, slow;
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s): GabaA; Glutamate;
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s):
Simulation Environment: GENESIS;
Model Concept(s): STDP; Calcium dynamics;
Implementer(s): Blackwell, Avrama [avrama at gmu.edu]; Evans, Rebekah [Rebekah.Evans at nih.gov];
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float isi = 0.08
reset
int i
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	setfield {cellpath}/secdend1/spine_2/presyn_ext z {1/{getclock 0}}

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	isi= {isi}-0.01
	reset
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