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Medial vestibular neuron models (Quadroni and Knopfel 1994)

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Accession:53876
The structure and the parameters of the model cells were chosen to reproduce the responses of type A and type B MVNns as described in electrophysiological recordings. The emergence of oscillatory firing under these two specific experimental conditions is consistent with electrophysiological recordings not used during construction of the model. We, therefore, suggest that these models have a high predictive value.
Reference:
1 . Quadroni R, Knöpfel T (1994) Compartmental models of type A and type B guinea pig medial vestibular neurons. J Neurophysiol 72:1911-24 [PubMed]
Model Information (Click on a link to find other models with that property)
Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell;
Brain Region(s)/Organism:
Cell Type(s): Vestibular neuron;
Channel(s): I Na,p; I Na,t; I L high threshold; I T low threshold; I A; I K; I h;
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s): NMDA;
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s):
Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Oscillations; Action Potentials; Calcium dynamics;
Implementer(s): Morse, Tom [Tom.Morse at Yale.edu];
Search NeuronDB for information about:  NMDA; I Na,p; I Na,t; I L high threshold; I T low threshold; I A; I K; I h;
COMMENT
This file, ca_dist.mod or ca_prox.mod, for Quadroni and Knopfel 1994, was modified
from cadifus.mod from Chapter 9 Hines and Carnevale NEURON
These files ca_dist.mod, ca_prox.mod, only have differences in number
of annuli, Nannuli, for distal dendrites (5 prox vs 2 dist compartments)
and of course in the suffix names ( ca_dist and ca_prox).
Here ca diffusion in a cylinder is modeled along with an ATPase pump
(the real pump consumes ATP as it pumps Ca out of the cell) and a
Na/Ca exchanger (each real exchanger pumps 1 Ca ions out of the cell for
3 Na ions let into the cell)
ENDCOMMENT

: Calcium ion accumulation with radial (and uncommentable longitudinal) diffusion
NEURON {
SUFFIX ca_prox		:	 			     ***************************************
USEION ca READ cai, ica WRITE cai	: note that the membrane ica is approximated as
			: not being changed by the little ATPase pump and the Na/Ca exchangers
			: and therefore ica is not written to with WRITE by this mechanism
NONSPECIFIC_CURRENT ifake : used to move the calc. of the breakpt. to same t as other currents
GLOBAL vrat : vrat must be GLOBAL --see INITIAL block
: however B which in cadifus.mod was called TotalBuffer may be and is here RANGE
RANGE K2f_ex, K2f_ATPase, B
}

DEFINE Nannuli 5 : must be >=2 (i.e. at least shell and core) ***************************************

UNITS {
	(molar) = (1/liter)
	(mM) = (millimolar)
	(um) = (micron)
	(mA) = (milliamp)
	(mV) = (millivolt)
	FARADAY = (faraday) (10000 coulomb)
	PI = (pi) (1)
}
PARAMETER {
	DCa = 0.6 (um2/ms)
	: Ca buffer reaction rates :
	k1buf = 30 (/mM ms)  : these rates from Sala and Hernandez-Cruz 1990
	k2buf = 0.03 (/ms) : and are labeled f and b in 
		   : Quadroni and Knopfel 1994 p. 1916
	B = 0.025 (mM) : this is [B] in Quadroni and Knopfel 94 Table 4
	: compare above with these rates from
	: k1buf = 100 (/mMms) : Yamada et al. 1989
	: k2buf = 0.1 (/ms)
	: B = 0.003 (mM)

	K2f_ex = 4.85e-13 (mA/cm2mM2): Quadroni and Knopfel 94 (distal dendrite A type cells)
		: this above value will be overwritten to give each section it's proper value.
		: int the Q+R 94 files this is done through bothcells4.ses
	cao = 2 (mM) : 2e-3 (M) : [Ca]_outside is set constant to 2mM because it
		   :	doesn't change in this simulation (thought to be approx true in real).
	E_1  = 0.01315 (/mV) : Quadroni and Knopfel 94
	E_2 = 0.0255 (/mV)   :  "	
	nai = 7.6 (mM)	     :  "
	nao = 152 (mM)	     :  "
	K2f_ATPase = 9.2625897e-06 (mA/cm2 mM4)  : 9.6e-11 (/umol ms cm2)  : type A distal dendrites only
	f_ATPase = 100 (/mM ms)	: simply called f for forward rate in Quadroni Knopfel
	b_ATPase = 0.005 (/ms)	: 1994 - this one is just called b for backward
	mM2M = 1e-3 (1)	: mM to M conversion for cai concentration in rate eq
}

ASSIGNED {
	v (mV)
	diam (um)
	ica (mA/cm2)
	i_Na_Ca_ex (mA/cm2)
	i_ATPase (mA/cm2)
	cai (mM)
	vrat[Nannuli] (1) : dimensionless
	: numeric value of vrat[i] equals the volume
	: of annulus iof a 1um diameter cylinder
	: multiply by diam^2 to get volume per um length
	Kd (/mM)
	B0 (mM)
	ifake (mA/cm2) : fake current used to make solver move
		       : calculation of breakpt. to same time as currents.
}
STATE {
	: ca[0] is equivalent to cai
	: ca[] are very small, so specify absolute tolerance
	ca[Nannuli] (mM) <1e-6>
	CaBuffer[Nannuli] (mM) <1e-6>
	Buffer[Nannuli] (mM) <1e-6>
	n (1)
}
BREAKPOINT { 
	SOLVE states METHOD cnexp
	i_Na_Ca_ex = -K2f_ex * (nai^3 * cao * exp(E_1 * v) - nao^3 * cai * exp(-E_2*v))
	i_ATPase = K2f_ATPase * n
	SOLVE state METHOD sparse
	ifake=0 : causes solver to execute the breakpoint block at the
:	same time as the calculation of the other currents
}

DERIVATIVE states {
	: compute state variable n at present v and t
	n' = f_ATPase * cai * (1 - n) - b_ATPase * n
}

LOCAL factors_done
INITIAL {
	if (factors_done == 0) { : flag becomes 1 in the first segment
		factors_done = 1 : all subsequent segments will have
		factors() : vrat = 0 unless vrat is GLOBAL
	}

	n = f_ATPase * cai / (f_ATPase * cai + b_ATPase)

	Kd = k1buf/k2buf
	B0 = B/(1 + Kd * cai )
	FROM i=0 TO Nannuli-1 {
		cai = 5e-5 :	initialization value of 50 uM
		ca[i] = cai	: keep stored values of cai in millimolar units
		Buffer[i] = B0
		CaBuffer[i] = B - B0
	}
}
LOCAL frat[Nannuli] : scales the rate constants for model geometry
PROCEDURE factors() {
	LOCAL r, dr2
	r = 1/2 : starts at edge (half diam)
	dr2 = r/(Nannuli-1)/2 : full thickness of outermost annulus,
	: half thickness of all other annuli
	vrat[0] = 0
	frat[0] = 2*r
	FROM i=0 TO Nannuli-2 {
		vrat[i] = vrat[i] + PI*(r-dr2/2)*2*dr2 : interior half
		r = r - dr2
		frat[i+1] = 2*PI*r/(2*dr2) : outer radius of annulus
		: div by distance between centers
		r = r - dr2
		vrat[i+1] = PI*(r+dr2/2)*2*dr2 : outer half of annulus
	}
}
LOCAL dsq, dsqvol : can't define local variable in KINETIC block
: or use in COMPARTMENT statement
KINETIC state {
	COMPARTMENT i, diam*diam*vrat[i] {ca CaBuffer Buffer}
	: LONGITUDINAL_DIFFUSION i, DCa*diam*diam*vrat[i] {ca}
	~ ca[0] << ( (-ica - i_Na_Ca_ex - i_ATPase)*PI*diam/(2*FARADAY)) 
			: ica is Ca efflux from lva and hva mechanisms
			: i_Na_Ca_ex is the flux from Na-Ca exhanger
			: i_ATPase is the flux from Ca-ATPase
	FROM i=0 TO Nannuli-2 {
		~ ca[i] <-> ca[i+1] (DCa*frat[i+1], DCa*frat[i+1])
	}
	dsq = diam*diam
	FROM i=0 TO Nannuli-1 {
		dsqvol = dsq*vrat[i]
		~ ca[i] + Buffer[i] <-> CaBuffer[i] (k1buf*dsqvol, k2buf*dsqvol)
	}
	cai = ca[0]
}

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