CA1 pyramidal neuron: dendritic Ca2+ inhibition (Muellner et al. 2015)

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In our experimental study, we combined paired patch-clamp recordings and two-photon Ca2+ imaging to quantify inhibition exerted by individual GABAergic contacts on hippocampal pyramidal cell dendrites. We observed that Ca2+ transients from back-propagating action potentials were significantly reduced during simultaneous activation of individual nearby GABAergic synapses. To simulate dendritic Ca2+ inhibition by individual GABAergic synapses, we employed a multi-compartmental CA1 pyramidal cell model with detailed morphology, voltage-gated channel distributions, and calcium dynamics, based with modifications on the model of Poirazi et al., 2003, modelDB accession # 20212.
Reference:
1 . Müllner FE, Wierenga CJ, Bonhoeffer T (2015) Precision of Inhibition: Dendritic Inhibition by Individual GABAergic Synapses on Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells Is Confined in Space and Time. Neuron 87:576-89 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell;
Brain Region(s)/Organism: Hippocampus;
Cell Type(s): Hippocampus CA1 pyramidal GLU cell;
Channel(s): I Calcium; I Sodium; I Potassium; I h;
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s):
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s): Gaba;
Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Action Potentials; Dendritic Action Potentials; Active Dendrites; Calcium dynamics;
Implementer(s): Muellner, Fiona E [fiona.muellner at gmail.com];
Search NeuronDB for information about:  Hippocampus CA1 pyramidal GLU cell; I h; I Sodium; I Calcium; I Potassium; Gaba;
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TITLE CaGk
: Calcium activated mAHP K channel.
: From Moczydlowski and Latorre (1983) J. Gen. Physiol. 82

UNITS {
	(molar) = (1/liter)
}

UNITS {
	(mV) =	(millivolt)
	(mA) =	(milliamp)
	(mM) =	(millimolar)
}

INDEPENDENT {t FROM 0 TO 1 WITH 100 (ms)}

NEURON {
	SUFFIX mykca
	USEION ca READ cai
	USEION k READ ek WRITE ik
	RANGE gkbar, ik
	GLOBAL oinf, tau
}

UNITS {
	FARADAY = (faraday)  (kilocoulombs)
	R = 8.313424 (joule/degC)
}

PARAMETER {
	v		(mV)
	dt		(ms)
	ek		(mV)
	celsius = 20	(degC)
	gkbar = 0.01	(mho/cm2)	: Maximum Permeability
	cai = 1e-3	(mM)
	d1 = 0.84
	d2 = 1.0
	k1 = 0.18	(mM)
	k2 = 0.011	(mM)
	bbar = 0.28	(/ms)
	abar = 0.48	(/ms)
}
COMMENT
the preceding two numbers were switched on 8/19/92 in response to a bug
report by Bartlett Mel. In the paper the kinetic scheme is
C <-> CCa (K1)
CCa <-> OCa (beta2,alpha2)
OCa <-> OCa2 (K4)
In this model abar = beta2 and bbar = alpha2 and K4 comes from d2 and k2
I was forcing things into a nomenclature where alpha is the rate from
closed to open. Unfortunately I didn't switch the numbers.
ENDCOMMENT

ASSIGNED {
	ik		(mA/cm2)
	oinf
	tau		(ms)
}

STATE {	o }		: fraction of open channels

BREAKPOINT {
	SOLVE state
	ik = gkbar*o*(v - ek) : potassium current induced by this channel
}

LOCAL fac

:if state_cagk is called from hoc, garbage or segmentation violation will
:result because range variables won't have correct pointer.  This is because
:only BREAKPOINT sets up the correct pointers to range variables.
PROCEDURE state() {	: exact when v held constant; integrates over dt step
	rate(v, cai)
	o = o + fac*(oinf - o)
	VERBATIM
	return 0;
	ENDVERBATIM
}

INITIAL {           : initialize the following parameter using rate()
	rate(v, cai)
	o = oinf
}

FUNCTION alp(v (mV), ca (mM)) (1/ms) { :callable from hoc
	alp = abar/(1 + exp1(k1,d1,v)/ca)
}

FUNCTION bet(v (mV), ca (mM)) (1/ms) { :callable from hoc
	bet = bbar/(1 + ca/exp1(k2,d2,v))
}  

FUNCTION exp1(k (mM), d, v (mV)) (mM) { :callable from hoc
	exp1 = k*exp(-2*d*FARADAY*v/R/(273.15 + celsius))
}

PROCEDURE rate(v (mV), ca (mM)) { :callable from hoc
	LOCAL a
	a = alp(v,ca)
	tau = 1/(a + bet(v, ca)) : estimation of activation tau
	oinf = a*tau             : estimation of activation steady state value
	fac = (1 - exp(-dt/tau))
}