Calyx of Held, short term plasticity (Yang Z et al. 2009)

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This model investigates mechanisms contributing to short term plasticity at the calyx of Held, a giant glutamatergic synapse in the mammalian brainstem auditory system. It is a stochastic version of the model described in: Hennig, M., Postlethwaite, M., Forsythe, I.D. and Graham, B.P. (2007). A biophysical model of short-term plasticity at the calyx of Held. Neurocomputing, 70:1626-1629. This version introduces stochastic vesicle recycling and release. It has been used to investigate the information transmission properties of this synapse, as detailed in: Yang, Z., Hennig, M., Postlethwaite, M., Forsythe, I.D. and Graham, B.P. (2008). Wide-band information transmission at the calyx of Held. Neural Computation, 21(4):991-1018.
Reference:
1 . Yang Z, Hennig MH, Postlethwaite M, Forsythe ID, Graham BP (2009) Wide-band information transmission at the calyx of Held. Neural Comput 21:991-1017 [PubMed]
2 . Hennig MH, Postlethwaite M, Forsythe ID, Graham BP (2007) A biophysical model of short-term plasticity at the calyx of Held, Neurocomputing 70(12):1626-1629
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Model Type: Synapse;
Brain Region(s)/Organism: Auditory brainstem;
Cell Type(s): Medial Nucleus of the Trapezoid Body (MNTB) neuron;
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Transmitter(s): Glutamate;
Simulation Environment: MATLAB;
Model Concept(s): Short-term Synaptic Plasticity; Vestibular;
Implementer(s): Hennig, Matthias H [mhhennig at gmail.com];
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Public release 30-11-08
                            
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