L5 PFC microcircuit used to study persistent activity (Papoutsi et al. 2014, 2013)

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Using a heavily constrained biophysical model of a L5 PFC microcircuit we investigate the mechanisms that underlie persistent activity emergence (ON) and termination (OFF) and search for the minimum network size required for expressing these states within physiological regimes.
Reference:
1 . Papoutsi A, Sidiropoulou K, Cutsuridis V, Poirazi P (2013) Induction and modulation of persistent activity in a layer V PFC microcircuit model. Front Neural Circuits 7:161 [PubMed]
2 . Papoutsi A, Sidiropoulou K, Poirazi P (2014) Dendritic nonlinearities reduce network size requirements and mediate ON and OFF states of persistent activity in a PFC microcircuit model. PLoS Comput Biol 10:e1003764 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Dendrite; Connectionist Network;
Brain Region(s)/Organism: Neocortex;
Cell Type(s): Neocortex L5/6 pyramidal GLU cell;
Channel(s): I Na,p; I Na,t; I L high threshold; I A; I CAN; I Potassium; I R; I_AHP;
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s): GabaA; GabaB; AMPA; NMDA;
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s):
Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Active Dendrites; Working memory;
Implementer(s): Papoutsi, Athanasia [athpapoutsi at gmail.com];
Search NeuronDB for information about:  Neocortex L5/6 pyramidal GLU cell; GabaA; GabaB; AMPA; NMDA; I Na,p; I Na,t; I L high threshold; I A; I CAN; I Potassium; I R; I_AHP;
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TITLE Slow Ca-dependent potassium current
:   Ca++ dependent K+ current responsible for slow AHP

NEURON {
	SUFFIX kca
	USEION k READ ko, ki WRITE ik
	USEION ca READ cai
	RANGE  gbar, po, ik
	GLOBAL m_inf, tau_m
}


UNITS {
	(mA) = (milliamp)
	(mV) = (millivolt)
	(molar) = (1/liter)
	(mM) = (millimolar)
}

ASSIGNED {       : parameters needed to solve DE
	v               (mV)
	celsius         (degC)
	ek              (mV)
	cai             (mM)           : initial [Ca]i
	ik              (mA/cm2)
	po
	ki 		(mM)
	ko		(mM)
	m_inf
	tau_m           (ms)

}

PARAMETER {
	gbar    = 10   (mho/cm2)
	taumin  = 0	(ms)  
	b 	= 0.008 (/ms)  : changed oct 17, 2006 for pfc 

}


STATE {
	m   
}

BREAKPOINT { 
	SOLVE states METHOD cnexp
	ek = 25 * log(ko/ki)
	po = m*m
	ik = gbar*po*(v - ek)    : potassium current induced by this channel
}

DERIVATIVE states {
	rates(cai)


	m' = (m_inf - m) / tau_m 

	
} 


INITIAL {
	rates(cai)
	m = 0

}


PROCEDURE rates(cai(mM)) { 
	LOCAL a
:	a=100
:	m_inf=(a*cai*cai)/(a*cai*cai+b)
:	tau_m=(1/(a*cai*cai+b))
	
:old equations	
	a = cai/b
	m_inf = a/(a+1)

	tau_m = taumin+ 1(ms)*1(mM)*b/(cai+b)

}