: $Id: IL3.mod,v 1.4 2009/01/13 14:32:55 billl Exp $ TITLE High threshold calcium current : Ca++ current, L type channels, responsible for calcium spikes : Differential equations : : Model of Huguenard & McCormick, J Neurophysiol, 1992 : Formalism of Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz : : Kinetic functions were fitted from data of hippocampal pyr cells : (Kay & Wong, J. Physiol. 392: 603, 1987) : : Written by Alain Destexhe, Salk Institute, Sept 18, 1992 : INDEPENDENT {t FROM 0 TO 1 WITH 1 (ms)} NEURON { SUFFIX ical3 USEION Ca READ Cai, Cao WRITE iCa VALENCE 2 RANGE pcabar, g GLOBAL m_inf, tau_m, sh1, sh2, rat } UNITS { (mA) = (milliamp) (mV) = (millivolt) (molar) = (1/liter) (mM) = (millimolar) FARADAY = (faraday) (coulomb) R = (k-mole) (joule/degC) } PARAMETER { v (mV) celsius = 36 (degC) eCa = 120 (mV) Cai = .00005 (mM) : initial [Ca]i = 50 nM Cao = 2 (mM) : [Ca]o = 2 mM pcabar = .003 (mho/cm2) : gL is about 2x that of IT (McCormick) sh1 = 0 sh2 = 0 rat = 1 } STATE { m } INITIAL { tadj = 3 ^ ((celsius-21.0)/10) evaluate_fct(v) m = m_inf } ASSIGNED { iCa (mA/cm2) g (mho/cm2) m_inf tau_m (ms) tadj } BREAKPOINT { SOLVE states METHOD cnexp g = pcabar * m * m iCa = g * ghk(v, Cai, Cao) } DERIVATIVE states { evaluate_fct(v) m' = (m_inf - m) / tau_m } UNITSOFF PROCEDURE evaluate_fct(v(mV)) { LOCAL a,b : : activation kinetics of Kay-Wong were at 20-22 deg. C : transformation to 36 deg assuming Q10=3 : a = 1.6 / (1 + exp(-0.072*(v+sh1+5)) ) b = 0.02 * (v+sh2-1.31) / ( exp((v+sh2-1.31)/5.36) - 1) tau_m = 1.0 / (a + b) / tadj m_inf = a / (a + b) } FUNCTION ghk(v(mV), ci(mM), co(mM)) (.001 coul/cm3) { LOCAL z, eci, eco z = (1e-3)*2*FARADAY*v/(R*(celsius+273.15)) eco = co*efun(z)*rat eci = ci*efun(-z) :high co charge moves inward :negative potential charge moves inward ghk = (.001)*2*FARADAY*(eci - eco) } FUNCTION efun(z) { if (fabs(z) < 1e-4) { efun = 1 - z/2 }else{ efun = z/(exp(z) - 1) } } UNITSON