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

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Accession:125385
"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]
Model Information (Click on a link to find other models with that property)
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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Persistent version of sna.mod (inactivation removed)

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     
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ENDCOMMENT

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

NEURON {
    SUFFIX snap
    USEION na READ ena WRITE ina     
    GLOBAL minf, mtau,am,bm     
    RANGE N, reff, eta, gamma, deterministic, gna
    GLOBAL P_am, P_bm
    GLOBAL tha, qa, vshift
    GLOBAL Ra, Rb
    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)     

    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)
    minf 
    mtau (ms)
     tadj

     N 
     reff   (pS/um2)
    scale_dens (pS/um2)
    P_am        : probability of one channel making am transition
    P_bm
    
    wflag
}
 
STATE { m                             : deterministic variables
    m00 m1 m2 m3 : states
    m00_m1  m1_m2  m2_m3 
    m3_m2  m2_m1  m1_m00 
}
: ----------------------------------------------------------------
: Initialization.   

INITIAL { 
    trates(v+vshift) 
    wflag = 1   : only give a warning once!   
    m = minf
    scale_dens = gamma/area
    reff = gamma*eta
    N   = floor(eta*area + 0.5)   : round to nearest number of channels

    m1 = floor(3*m*(1-m)*(1-m)*N + 0.5)
    m2 = floor(3*m*m*(1-m)*N + 0.5)
    m3 = floor(m*m*m*N + 0.5)

    : put the rest of the channels in the non-conducting & inactivated state
    m00 = N - (m1 + m2 + m3)


    m00_m1 = 0  
    m1_m2 = 0
    m2_m3 = 0
    m3_m2 = 0 
    m2_m1 = 0 
    m1_m00 = 0  
}

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: Breakpoint for each integration step
BREAKPOINT {
    SOLVE states
    if (deterministic) { 
        if (deterministic-1){        
    gna = m*m*m*reff*tadj    
    } else {                            
    gna = floor(m*m*m*N + 0.5) * scale_dens *tadj}
    } else{                                        
    gna = strap(m3) * 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)
    
    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) )

    m00_m1 = BnlDev_RNG(3.0*P_am,m00)
    m1_m2 = BnlDev_RNG(2.0*P_am,m1)
    m1_m00 = BnlDev_RNG(P_bm/(1.0-2.0*P_am), m1 - m1_m2)  
    m2_m3 = BnlDev_RNG(P_am,m2)
    m2_m1 = BnlDev_RNG(2.0*P_bm/(1.0-P_am), m2 - m2_m3)
    m3_m2 = BnlDev_RNG(3.0*P_bm,m3)
    
    : new numbers in each state after the m gate transitions
    m00 = m00 - m00_m1 + m1_m00
    m1 = m1 - m1_m2 - m1_m00  + m2_m1 + m00_m1
    m2 = m2 - m2_m3 - m2_m1  + m3_m2 + m1_m2
    m3 = m3 - m3_m2 + m2_m3
}


: ----------------------------------------------------------------
: trates - compute rates, using table if possible
PROCEDURE trates(vm) {     
    TABLE minf, mtau, am, bm, tadj
    DEPEND dt,Ra,Rb,tha,qa,q10,orig_temp,celsius
    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
}


: ----------------------------------------------------------------
: 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,"snap.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, "snap.mod:ChkProb: argument not a probability.\n");
ENDVERBATIM
    wflag =0}
  } }

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