Stochastic Ih and Na-channels in pyramidal neuron dendrites (Kole et al 2006)

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The hyperpolarization-activated cation current (Ih) plays an important role in regulating neuronal excitability, yet its native single-channel properties in the brain are essentially unknown. Here we use variance-mean analysis to study the properties of single Ih channels in the apical dendrites of cortical layer 5 pyramidal neurons in vitro. ... In contrast to the uniformly distributed single-channel conductance, Ih channel number increases exponentially with distance, reaching densities as high as approximately 550 channels/microm2 at distal dendritic sites. These high channel densities generate significant membrane voltage noise. By incorporating a stochastic model of Ih single-channel gating into a morphologically realistic model of a layer 5 neuron, we show that this channel noise is higher in distal dendritic compartments and increased threefold with a 10-fold increased single-channel conductance (6.8 pS) but constant Ih current density. ... These data suggest that, in the face of high current densities, the small single-channel conductance of Ih is critical for maintaining the fidelity of action potential output. See paper for more and details.
Reference:
1 . Kole MH, Hallermann S, Stuart GJ (2006) Single Ih channels in pyramidal neuron dendrites: properties, distribution, and impact on action potential output. J Neurosci 26:1677-87 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell;
Brain Region(s)/Organism:
Cell Type(s): Neocortex L5/6 pyramidal GLU cell;
Channel(s): I h;
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s):
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s):
Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Ion Channel Kinetics; Active Dendrites;
Implementer(s): Hallermann, Stefan [hallermann at medizin.uni-leipzig.de];
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Stochastic
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COMMENT
26 Ago 2002 Modification of original channel to allow variable time step and to correct an initialization error.
    Done by Michael Hines(michael.hines@yale.e) and Ruggero Scorcioni(rscorcio@gmu.edu) at EU Advance Course in Computational Neuroscience. Obidos, Portugal

na.mod

Sodium channel, Hodgkin-Huxley style kinetics.  

Kinetics were fit to data from Huguenard et al. (1988) and Hamill et
al. (1991)

qi is not well constrained by the data, since there are no points
between -80 and -55.  So this was fixed at 5 while the thi1,thi2,Rg,Rd
were optimized using a simplex least square proc

voltage dependencies are shifted approximately from the best
fit to give higher threshold

Author: Zach Mainen, Salk Institute, 1994, zach@salk.edu

modified by Sefan Hallermann (2006) to correct error in trap0() function 

ENDCOMMENT

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

NEURON {
	SUFFIX na
	USEION na READ ena WRITE ina
	RANGE m, h, gna, gbar
	GLOBAL tha, thi1, thi2, qa, qi, qinf, thinf
	RANGE minf, hinf, mtau, htau
	GLOBAL Ra, Rb, Rd, Rg
	GLOBAL q10, temp, tadj, vmin, vmax, vshift
}

PARAMETER {
	gbar = 1000   	(pS/um2)	: 0.12 mho/cm2
	vshift = -10	(mV)		: voltage shift (affects all)
								
	tha  = -35	(mV)		: v 1/2 for act		(-42)
	qa   = 9	(mV)		: act slope		
	Ra   = 0.182	(/ms)		: open (v)		
	Rb   = 0.124	(/ms)		: close (v)		

	thi1  = -50	(mV)		: v 1/2 for inact 	
	thi2  = -75	(mV)		: v 1/2 for inact 	
	qi   = 5	(mV)	        : inact tau slope
	thinf  = -65	(mV)		: inact inf slope	
	qinf  = 6.2	(mV)		: inact inf slope
	Rg   = 0.0091	(/ms)		: inact (v)	
	Rd   = 0.024	(/ms)		: inact recov (v) 

	temp = 23	(degC)		: original temp 
	q10  = 2.3			: temperature sensitivity

	v 		(mV)
	dt		(ms)
	celsius		(degC)
	vmin = -120	(mV)
	vmax = 100	(mV)
}


UNITS {
	(mA) = (milliamp)
	(mV) = (millivolt)
	(pS) = (picosiemens)
	(um) = (micron)
} 

ASSIGNED {
	ina 		(mA/cm2)
	gna		(pS/um2)
	ena		(mV)
	minf 		hinf
	mtau (ms)	htau (ms)
	tadj
}
 

STATE { m h }

INITIAL { 
	trates(v+vshift)
	m = minf
	h = hinf
}

BREAKPOINT {
        SOLVE states METHOD cnexp
        gna = tadj*gbar*m*m*m*h
	ina = (1e-4) * gna * (v - ena)
} 

LOCAL mexp, hexp 

DERIVATIVE states {   :Computes state variables m, h, and n 
        trates(v+vshift)      :             at the current v and dt.
        m' =  (minf-m)/mtau
        h' =  (hinf-h)/htau
}

PROCEDURE trates(v) {  
                      
        
        TABLE minf,  hinf, mtau, htau
	DEPEND  celsius, temp, Ra, Rb, Rd, Rg, tha, thi1, thi2, qa, qi, qinf
	
	FROM vmin TO vmax WITH 199

	rates(v): not consistently executed from here if usetable == 1

:        tinc = -dt * tadj

:        mexp = 1 - exp(tinc/mtau)
:        hexp = 1 - exp(tinc/htau)
}


PROCEDURE rates(vm) {  
        LOCAL  a, b

	a = trap0(vm,tha,Ra,qa)
	b = trap0(-vm,-tha,Rb,qa)

        tadj = q10^((celsius - temp)/10)

	mtau = 1/tadj/(a+b)
	minf = a/(a+b)

		:"h" inactivation 

	a = trap0(vm,thi1,Rd,qi)
	b = trap0(-vm,-thi2,Rg,qi)
	htau = 1/tadj/(a+b)
	hinf = 1/(1+exp((vm-thinf)/qinf))
}


FUNCTION trap0(v,th,a,q) {
	if (fabs((v-th)/th) > 1e-6) {
	        trap0 = a * (v - th) / (1 - exp(-(v - th)/q))
	} else {
	        trap0 = a * q
 	}
}