The subcellular distribution of T-type Ca2+ channels in LGN interneurons (Allken et al. 2014)

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" ...To study the relationship between the (Ca2+ channel) T-distribution and several (LGN interneuron) IN response properties, we here run a series of simulations where we vary the T-distribution in a multicompartmental IN model with a realistic morphology. We find that the somatic response to somatic current injection is facilitated by a high T-channel density in the soma-region. Conversely, a high T-channel density in the distal dendritic region is found to facilitate dendritic signalling in both the outward direction (increases the response in distal dendrites to somatic input) and the inward direction (the soma responds stronger to distal synaptic input). ..."
Reference:
1 . Allken V, Chepkoech JL, Einevoll GT, Halnes G (2014) The subcellular distribution of T-type Ca2+ channels in interneurons of the lateral geniculate nucleus. PLoS One 9:e107780 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell;
Brain Region(s)/Organism: Thalamus;
Cell Type(s): Thalamus lateral geniculate nucleus interneuron;
Channel(s): I L high threshold; I T low threshold; I h; I K,Ca; I CAN; I_AHP;
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Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Dendritic Action Potentials; Active Dendrites; Conductance distributions;
Implementer(s): Allken, Vaneeda [vaneeda at gmail.com];
Search NeuronDB for information about:  I L high threshold; I T low threshold; I h; I K,Ca; I CAN; I_AHP;
TITLE anomalous rectifier channel
:
: Anomalous Rectifier Ih - cation (Na/K) channel for geniculate interneurons
: Differential equations
:
: Written by Jun Zhu, Univ. Wisconsin, Jan 1996
: Modified by Geir Halnes, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, June 2011
: Fitted to data from mice dLGN interneurons.

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

NEURON {
	SUFFIX iar
	USEION other WRITE iother VALENCE 1
        RANGE ghbar,  iother
	GLOBAL h_inf, tauh, erev, stp,  shift
}


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


PARAMETER {
      v               (mV)
	erev	= -44	(mV)
	celsius = 36	(degC)
	ghbar	= 1.1e-5 (mho/cm2) : Set from hoc-file
	shift   =  0    (mV)

	: Kinetics fitted to new data from mice dLGN interneurons.
	: Halnes et al. 2011
      stp     = 10	
	a0 = 96
	a1 = 250
	a2 = 30.7
	a3 = 78.8
	a4 = 5.78
}


STATE {
        h
}


ASSIGNED {
	i	(mA/cm2)
	iother 	(mA/cm2)
	h_inf
	tauh	(ms)
	tadj
}


BREAKPOINT {
	SOLVE state METHOD cnexp
	iother = ghbar * h * (v - erev)
}

DERIVATIVE state  {
	evaluate_fct(v)
      h' = (h_inf - h) / tauh
}
UNITSOFF

INITIAL {
	evaluate_fct(v)
      h = h_inf
}


PROCEDURE evaluate_fct(v (mV)) {
	h_inf = 1 / ( 1 + exp((v+shift+a0)/stp) )
	tauh = exp((v+shift+a1)/a2) / ( 1 + exp((v+shift+a3)/a4))
}



UNITSON