Spontaneous firing caused by stochastic channel gating (Chow, White 1996)

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Accession:50391
NEURON implementation of model of stochastic channel gating, resulting in spontaneous firing. Qualitatively reproduces the phenomena described in the reference.
Reference:
1 . Chow CC, White JA (1996) Spontaneous action potentials due to channel fluctuations. Biophys J 71:3013-21 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Channel/Receptor;
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Channel(s): I K; I Sodium;
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Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Action Potential Initiation; Activity Patterns; Ion Channel Kinetics; Temporal Pattern Generation; Axonal Action Potentials; Action Potentials;
Implementer(s): Carnevale, Ted [Ted.Carnevale at Yale.edu]; Donnelly, David [david.donnelly at yale.edu];
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