Spike propagation in dendrites with stochastic ion channels (Diba et al. 2006)

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"We investigate the effects of the stochastic nature of ion channels on the faithfulness, precision and reproducibility of electrical signal transmission in weakly active, dendritic membrane under in vitro conditions. ... We numerically simulate the effects of stochastic ion channels on the forward and backward propagation of dendritic spikes in Monte-Carlo simulations on a reconstructed layer 5 pyramidal neuron. We report that in most instances there is little variation in timing or amplitude for a single BPAP, while variable backpropagation can occur for trains of action potentials. Additionally, we find that the generation and forward propagation of dendritic Ca2+ spikes are susceptible to channel variability. This indicates limitations on computations that depend on the precise timing of Ca2+ spikes."
Reference:
1 . Diba K, Koch C, Segev I (2006) Spike propagation in dendrites with stochastic ion channels. J Comput Neurosci 20:77-84 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Channel/Receptor;
Brain Region(s)/Organism: Neocortex;
Cell Type(s):
Channel(s):
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s):
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s):
Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Active Dendrites; Action Potentials;
Implementer(s): Diba, Kamran [diba at andromeda.rutgers.edu];
COMMENT
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This a stochastic version of the na3h5.mod of Z. Mainen in
Mainen & Sejnowski 95 (Zach Mainen, Salk Institute, 1994, zach@salk.edu).

It is a sodium channel, Hodgkin-Huxley like kinetics, based on the gates
model, assuming stochastic opening and closing.

The rates function are adapted directly from the na3h5.mod
by Zach Mainen, available through:
http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~zach/initdemo.html

The stochastic model is similar to that used by Schneidman, Freedman, 
Segev, 1998 and is as follows (ascii-art):

           = 3alpha_m =>         = 2alpha_m =>        = alpha_m =>  
    [m0h1]               [m1h1]               [m2h1]             <[m3h1]>
          <= beta_m =           <= 2beta_m =         <= 3beta_m =  
        ^                  ^                    ^                 ^  
beta_h| |          beta_h| |            beta_h| |         beta_h| |
      | |alpha_h         | |alpha_h           | | alpha_h       | | alphah  
      | |                | |                  | |               | |
      V    = 3alpha_m => V      = 2alpha_m => V    = alpha_m => V  
    [m0h0]                [m1h0]               [m2h0]              [m3h0]
           <= beta_m =          <= 2beta_m =          <= 3beta_m =  


The model keeps track of the number of channels in each state and 
uses a binomial rng to update this number. The model requires that the 
RNG mechanism be inserted somewhere in the simulation in order to provide
the BnlDev_RNG function.

Jan 1999 Mickey London, Hebrew University, 1998, mikilon@lobster.ls.huji.ac.il
        Peter N. Steinmetz, Caltech, peter@klab.caltech.edu
14 Sep 99 PNS. Added deterministic flag.   
01 Sep 02 K. Diba changed deterministic to RANGE variable     
----------------------------------------------------------------
ENDCOMMENT

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

NEURON {
    SUFFIX sna
    USEION na READ ena WRITE ina     
    GLOBAL minf, hinf, mtau, htau,am,bm,ah,bh     
    RANGE N, reff, eta, gamma, deterministic, gna
    GLOBAL P_am, P_bm, P_ah, P_bh, hinf_curve
    GLOBAL tha, thi1, thi2, qa, qi, qinf, thinf, vshift
    GLOBAL Ra, Rb, Rd, Rg
    GLOBAL vmin, vmax, q10, orig_temp, wflag, tadj
    GLOBAL DONT_VECTORIZE   : prevent vectorization to agree with RNG.mod
}
  
UNITS {
    (mA) = (milliamp)
    (mV) = (millivolt)
    (pS) = (picosiemens)
    (um) = (micron)
} 

PARAMETER {
    v       (mV)
    dt      (ms)
    area

    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
    hinf_curve = 1          : 0 if use normal relation for hinf
                        : otherwise use curve specified by following 
                        : two parameters
    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) 

    gamma  =  20      (pS)    
    eta     = 50      (1/um2) : channel density
    
    celsius (degC)
    orig_temp = 23 (degC)   : original temperature
    q10 = 2.3               : temperature sensitivity
    
    deterministic = 0   : if non-zero, use deterministic variables
    
    vmin = -120 (mV)        : range to construct tables for
    vmax = 100  (mV)
    DONT_VECTORIZE          : required declaration
}

ASSIGNED {
    ina         (mA/cm2)
    gna     (pS/um2)
    ena     (mV)

     am     (/ms)
    bm      (/ms)
     ah     (/ms)
    bh      (/ms)
    minf        
     hinf
    mtau (ms)    
     htau (ms)
     tadj

     N 
     reff   (pS/um2)
    scale_dens (pS/um2)
    P_am        : probability of one channel making am transition
    P_bm
    P_ah
    P_bh
    
    wflag
}
 
STATE { m h                             : deterministic variables
        m0h0 m0h1 m1h0 m1h1 m2h0 m2h1 m3h0 m3h1 : states
m0h0_m1h0  m1h0_m2h0  m2h0_m3h0  m0h1_m1h1  m1h1_m2h1  m2h1_m3h1  
m3h0_m2h0  m2h0_m1h0  m1h0_m0h0  m3h1_m2h1  m2h1_m1h1  m1h1_m0h1  
m0h0_m0h1 m0h1_m0h0 m1h0_m1h1 m1h1_m1h0 m2h0_m2h1 m2h1_m2h0 m3h0_m3h1 m3h1_m3h0 
}
: ----------------------------------------------------------------
: Initialization.
INITIAL { 
    trates(v+vshift) 
    wflag = 1   : only give a warning once!   
    m = minf
    h = hinf
    scale_dens = gamma/area
    reff = gamma*eta
    N   = floor(eta*area + 0.5)   : round to nearest number of channels

    m1h0 = floor(3*m*(1-m)*(1-m)*(1-h)*N + 0.5)
    m2h0 = floor(3*m*m*(1-m)*(1-h)*N + 0.5)
    m3h0 = floor(m*m*m*(1-h)*N + 0.5)

    m0h1 = floor((1-m)*(1-m)*(1-m)*h*N + 0.5)
    m1h1 = floor(3*m*(1-m)*(1-m)*h*N + 0.5)
    m2h1 = floor(3*m*m*(1-m)*h*N + 0.5)
    m3h1 = floor(m*m*m*h*N + 0.5)
    
    : put the rest of the channels in the non-conducting & inactivated state
    m0h0 = N - (m1h0 + m2h0 + m3h0 + m0h1 + m1h1 + m2h1 + m3h1)

    m0h0_m1h0=0 
    m1h0_m2h0=0 
    m2h0_m3h0=0 
    m0h1_m1h1=0
    m1h1_m2h1=0
    m2h1_m3h1=0 
    m3h0_m2h0=0 
    m2h0_m1h0=0
    m1h0_m0h0=0 
    m3h1_m2h1=0 
    m2h1_m1h1=0 
    m1h1_m0h1=0

    m0h0_m0h1=0 
    m0h1_m0h0=0 
    m1h0_m1h1=0 
    m1h1_m1h0=0 
    m2h0_m2h1=0 
    m2h1_m2h0=0 
    m3h0_m3h1=0 
    m3h1_m3h0=0
}

: ----------------------------------------------------------------
: Breakpoint for each integration step
BREAKPOINT {
    SOLVE states
    if (deterministic) { 
        if (deterministic-1){        
    gna = m*m*m*h*reff*tadj    
    } else {                            
    gna = floor(m*m*m*h* N + 0.5) * scale_dens *tadj}
    } else{                                        
    gna = strap(m3h1) * scale_dens * tadj
    }
    ina = (1e-4) * gna * (v - ena)
} 


: ----------------------------------------------------------------
: states - compute state variables
PROCEDURE states() {

VERBATIM
    extern double BnlDev_RNG();
ENDVERBATIM
        
    trates(v+vshift)

    : deterministic versions of state variables
    : integrated by relaxing toward the steady state value
    m = m + (1 - exp(-dt/mtau)) * (minf-m)
    h = h + (1 - exp(-dt/htau)) * (hinf-h)
    
    P_am = strap(am*dt)
    P_bm  = strap(bm*dt)
    
    : check that will represent probabilities when used
    ChkProb( 3.0 * P_am)
    ChkProb( 3.0 * P_bm)
    ChkProb( P_bm/(1.0-2.0*P_am) )
    ChkProb( 2.0 * P_bm/(1.0-P_am) )
    
    : m gate transitions
:    if (deterministic) {
:    m0h0_m1h0 = 3.0*P_am*m0h0
:    m1h0_m2h0 = 2.0*P_am*m1h0
:    m1h0_m0h0 = P_bm/(1.0-2.0*P_am)*(m1h0 - m1h0_m2h0)  
:    m2h0_m3h0 = P_am*m2h0
:    m2h0_m1h0 = 2.0*P_bm/(1.0-P_am)*(m2h0 - m2h0_m3h0)
:    m3h0_m2h0 = 3.0*P_bm*m3h0
:    m0h1_m1h1 = 3.0*P_am*m0h1    
:    m1h1_m2h1 = 2.0*P_am*m1h1
:    m1h1_m0h1 = P_bm/(1.0-2.0*P_am)*(m1h1 - m1h1_m2h1)
:    m2h1_m3h1 = P_am*m2h1
:    m2h1_m1h1 = 2.0*P_bm/(1.0-P_am)*(m2h1 - m2h1_m3h1)
:    m3h1_m2h1 = 3.0*P_bm*m3h1
:    }
:    else {
    m0h0_m1h0 = BnlDev_RNG(3.0*P_am,m0h0)
    m1h0_m2h0 = BnlDev_RNG(2.0*P_am,m1h0)
    m1h0_m0h0 = BnlDev_RNG(P_bm/(1.0-2.0*P_am), m1h0 - m1h0_m2h0)  
    m2h0_m3h0 = BnlDev_RNG(P_am,m2h0)
    m2h0_m1h0 = BnlDev_RNG(2.0*P_bm/(1.0-P_am), m2h0 - m2h0_m3h0)
    m3h0_m2h0 = BnlDev_RNG(3.0*P_bm,m3h0)
    m0h1_m1h1 = BnlDev_RNG(3.0*P_am, m0h1)
    m1h1_m2h1 = BnlDev_RNG(2.0*P_am, m1h1)
    m1h1_m0h1 = BnlDev_RNG(P_bm/(1.0-2.0*P_am), m1h1 - m1h1_m2h1)
    m2h1_m3h1 = BnlDev_RNG(P_am,m2h1)
    m2h1_m1h1 = BnlDev_RNG(2.0*P_bm/(1.0-P_am), m2h1 - m2h1_m3h1)
    m3h1_m2h1  = BnlDev_RNG(3.0*P_bm,m3h1)
:    }
    : new numbers in each state after the m gate transitions
    m0h0 = m0h0 - m0h0_m1h0 + m1h0_m0h0
    m1h0 = m1h0 - m1h0_m2h0 - m1h0_m0h0  + m2h0_m1h0 + m0h0_m1h0
    m2h0 = m2h0 - m2h0_m3h0 - m2h0_m1h0  + m3h0_m2h0 + m1h0_m2h0
    m3h0 = m3h0 - m3h0_m2h0 + m2h0_m3h0

    m0h1 = m0h1 - m0h1_m1h1 + m1h1_m0h1
    m1h1 = m1h1 - m1h1_m2h1 - m1h1_m0h1 + m2h1_m1h1 + m0h1_m1h1
    m2h1 = m2h1 - m2h1_m3h1 - m2h1_m1h1 + m3h1_m2h1 + m1h1_m2h1
    m3h1 = m3h1 - m3h1_m2h1 + m2h1_m3h1

    : probabilities of making h gate transitions
    P_ah = strap(ah*dt)
    P_bh = strap(bh*dt)
    
    ChkProb(P_ah)
    ChkProb(P_bh)
    
    : number making h gate transitions
:    if (deterministic) {
:    m0h0_m0h1 = P_ah*m0h0
:    m0h1_m0h0 = P_bh*m0h1
:    m1h0_m1h1 = P_ah*m1h0
:    m1h1_m1h0 = P_bh*m1h1
:    m2h0_m2h1 = P_ah*m2h0
:    m2h1_m2h0 = P_bh*m2h1
:    m3h0_m3h1 = P_ah*m3h0
:    m3h1_m3h0 = P_bh*m3h1
:    }
:    else {
    m0h0_m0h1 = BnlDev_RNG(P_ah,m0h0)
    m0h1_m0h0 = BnlDev_RNG(P_bh,m0h1)
    m1h0_m1h1 = BnlDev_RNG(P_ah,m1h0)
    m1h1_m1h0 = BnlDev_RNG(P_bh,m1h1)
    m2h0_m2h1 = BnlDev_RNG(P_ah,m2h0)
    m2h1_m2h0 = BnlDev_RNG(P_bh,m2h1)
    m3h0_m3h1 = BnlDev_RNG(P_ah,m3h0)
    m3h1_m3h0 = BnlDev_RNG(P_bh,m3h1)
:    }
    m0h0 = m0h0 - m0h0_m0h1  + m0h1_m0h0
    m1h0 = m1h0 - m1h0_m1h1  + m1h1_m1h0
    m2h0 = m2h0 - m2h0_m2h1  + m2h1_m2h0
    m3h0 = m3h0 - m3h0_m3h1  + m3h1_m3h0

    m0h1 = m0h1 - m0h1_m0h0  + m0h0_m0h1
    m1h1 = m1h1 - m1h1_m1h0  + m1h0_m1h1
    m2h1 = m2h1 - m2h1_m2h0  + m2h0_m2h1
    m3h1 = m3h1 - m3h1_m3h0  + m3h0_m3h1
}


: ----------------------------------------------------------------
: trates - compute rates, using table if possible
PROCEDURE trates(vm) {     TABLE minf, mtau, hinf, htau, am, bm, ah, bh, tadj
    DEPEND dt,Ra,Rb,Rd,Rg,tha,thi1,thi2,qa,qi,qinf,q10,orig_temp,celsius, hinf_curve
    FROM vmin TO vmax WITH 199
        tadj = q10^((celsius-orig_temp)/10)
    
    : m activation variable
    am = SigmoidRate(vm,tha,Ra,qa)
    am = am * tadj
    bm = SigmoidRate(-vm,-tha,Rb,qa)
    bm = bm * tadj
    mtau = 1/(am+bm)
    minf = am*mtau
    
    : h inactivation variable
    ah = SigmoidRate(vm,thi1,Rd,qi)
    ah = ah * tadj
    bh = SigmoidRate(-vm,-thi2,Rg,qi)
    bh = bh * tadj
    htau = 1/(ah+bh)
    : hinf_curve is non-zero if using explicit fit, zero otherwise
    if (hinf_curve == 0) {
        hinf = ah*htau
    }
    else {
        hinf = 1/(1+exp((vm-thinf)/qinf))
        : recompute rates based on hinf
        ah = hinf/htau
        bh = 1/htau - ah
    }
    
}


: ----------------------------------------------------------------
: SigmoidRate - Compute a sigmoid rate function given the 
: 50% point th, the slope q, and the amplitude a.
FUNCTION SigmoidRate(v,th,a,q) {
    if (fabs(v-th) > 1e-6) {
        SigmoidRate = a * (v - th) / (1 - exp(-(v - th)/q))
    } else {
        SigmoidRate = a * q
    }
}   


: ----------------------------------------------------------------
: sign trap - trap negative numbers and replace with zero
FUNCTION strap(x) {
    if (x < 0) {
        strap = 0
    if (wflag){            
VERBATIM
        fprintf (stderr,"sna.mod:strap: negative value for state");
ENDVERBATIM
    wflag = 0}
    } else { 
        strap = x
    }
}

: ----------------------------------------------------------------
: ChkProb - Check that number represents a probability
PROCEDURE ChkProb(p) {
  if (p < 0.0 || p > 1.0) {
    if (wflag){
VERBATIM
    fprintf(stderr, "sna.mod:ChkProb: argument not a probability.\n");
ENDVERBATIM
    wflag =0}
  } }

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