TITLE Potassium A-type current for nucleus accumbens (Kv1.2) COMMENT Jason Moyer 2004 - jtmoyer@seas.upenn.edu Shen W, Hernandez-Lopez S, Tkatch T, Held JE, Surmeier DJ (2004). Kv1.2-containing k+ channels regulate subthreshold excitability of striatal medium spiny neurons. J Neurophys 91: 1337-1349. Some of the parameters were published incorrectly in the original paper - these are detailed below ENDCOMMENT UNITS { (mA) = (milliamp) (mV) = (millivolt) (S) = (siemens) } NEURON { SUFFIX kas USEION k READ ek WRITE ik RANGE gkbar, ik } PARAMETER { gkbar = 0.01 (mho/cm2) : 0.01 soma&prox; 0.00091483 mid&dist qfact = 9 : qfact = 3 after equations were set but before : temp correction for fig 6E; QF = 9 is 35 degC vmh = -27.0 (mV) : Shen 2004 vmc = -16 (mV) : Shen 2004 vhh = -33.5 (mV) : Shen 2004 vhc = 21.5 (mV) : Shen 2004 taum0 = 3.4 (ms) : Shen 2004 Cm = 89.2 (ms) : Shen 2004 vthm = -34.3 (mV) : Shen 2004 vtcm = 30.1 (mV) : Shen 2004 alpha = 1 : correspondence with josh held vth1 = -0.96 (mV) : Shen 2004 vtc1 = 29.01 (mV) : Shen 2004 beta = 1 : josh held vth2 = -0.96 (mV) : Shen 2004 vtc2 = 100 (mV) : Shen 2004 Ch = 9876.6 (ms) : 548.7 * 18, set to match tauh = 2 s with div by qfact = 3 a = 0.996 : josh held hshift = 0 (mV) htaushift = -90 (mV) : to correct kinetics } STATE { m h } ASSIGNED { ek (mV) v (mV) ik (mA/cm2) gk (S/cm2) minf hinf mtau (ms) htau (ms) } INITIAL { settables(v) m = minf h = hinf } BREAKPOINT { SOLVE state METHOD cnexp gk = gkbar * m * m * (a*h + (1-a)) ik = gk * ( v - ek ) } DERIVATIVE state { settables(v) mtau = mtau / qfact htau = htau / qfact m' = (minf - m)/mtau h' = (hinf - h)/htau } PROCEDURE settables( v (mV) ) { LOCAL left, right TABLE minf, hinf, mtau, htau DEPEND hshift, Ch FROM -200 TO 200 WITH 201 minf = 1 / (1+(exp( (v - vmh) / vmc ))) hinf = 1 / (1+(exp( (v - vhh - hshift) / vhc ))) mtau = taum0 + Cm * exp( - ((v-vthm)/vtcm)^2 ) left = alpha * exp( -(v-vth1-htaushift)/vtc1 ) : originally exp((v-vth1)/vtc1) right = beta * exp( (v-vth2-htaushift)/vtc2 ) : originally exp(-(v-vth2)/vtc2) htau = Ch / ( left + right ) }