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];
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TITLE decay of internal calcium concentration
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: Internal calcium concentration due to calcium currents and pump.
: Differential equations.
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: Simple model of ATPase pump with 3 kinetic constants (Destexhe 92)
:     Cai + P <-> CaP -> Cao + P  (k1,k2,k3)
: A Michaelis-Menten approximation is assumed, which reduces the complexity
: of the system to 2 parameters: 
:      kt = <tot enzyme concentration> * k3  -> TIME CONSTANT OF THE PUMP
:	kd = k2/k1 (dissociation constant)    -> EQUILIBRIUM CALCIUM VALUE
: The values of these parameters are chosen assuming a high affinity of 
: the pump to calcium and a low transport capacity (cfr. Blaustein, 
: TINS, 11: 438, 1988, and references therein).  
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: Units checked using "modlunit" -> factor 10000 needed in ca entry
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: VERSION OF PUMP + DECAY (decay can be viewed as simplified buffering)
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: All variables are range variables
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: This mechanism was published in:  Destexhe, A. Babloyantz, A. and 
: Sejnowski, TJ.  Ionic mechanisms for intrinsic slow oscillations in
: thalamic relay neurons. Biophys. J. 65: 1538-1552, 1993)
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: Written by Alain Destexhe, Salk Institute, Nov 12, 1992
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: This file was modified by Yiota Poirazi (poirazi@LNC.usc.edu) on April 18, 2001 : to account for the sharp Ca++ spike repolarization observed in: Golding, N. Jung H-Y., Mickus T. and Spruston N
: "Dendritic Calcium Spike Initiation and Repolarization are controlled by distinct potassium channel subtypes in CA1 pyramidal neurons". J. of Neuroscience 19(20) 8789-8798, 1999.
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:  factor 10000 is replaced by 10000/18 needed in ca entry
:  taur --rate of calcium removal-- is replaced by taur*7 (7 times faster) 
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: Modified by Fiona Muellner, MPI Neurobiology, March 2015 (email: fiona.muellner@gmail.com) to correct the surface-volume-ratio (see Anwar et. al. 2014, "Dendritic diameters affect the spatial variability of intracellular calcium dynamics in computer models").


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

NEURON {
	SUFFIX cad
	USEION ca READ ica, cai WRITE cai	
        RANGE ca
	GLOBAL depth,cainf,taur
}

UNITS {
	(molar) = (1/liter)			: moles do not appear in units
	(mM)	= (millimolar)
	(um)	= (micron)
	(mA)	= (milliamp)
	(msM)	= (ms mM)
	FARADAY = (faraday) (coulomb)
}


PARAMETER {
	depth	= .1	(um)		: depth of shell
	depth_corr 	(um)
	taur	= 200	(ms)		: rate of calcium removal
	cainf	= 100e-6(mM)
	cai		(mM)
}

STATE {
	ca		(mM) 
}

INITIAL {
	ca = cainf
}

ASSIGNED {
	diam		(um)
	ica		(mA/cm2)
	drive_channel	(mM/ms)
}
	
BREAKPOINT {
	SOLVE state METHOD derivimplicit
}

DERIVATIVE state { 
	if (diam>2*depth) {
		depth_corr = depth*(diam-depth)/diam : = SVR^-1
	} else {
		depth_corr = diam/4
	}
	drive_channel =  - (10000) * ica / (2 * FARADAY * depth_corr)
	if (drive_channel <= 0.) { drive_channel = 0.  }   : cannot pump inward 
         
	:ca' = drive_channel + (cainf-ca)/taur
        ca' = drive_channel/18 + (cainf -ca)/taur*7
	cai = ca
}