TITLE simple NMDA receptors : Hines combined AMPA and NMDA and spike dependent plasticity : Modified from the original AMPA.mod, M.Migliore Jan 2003 : A weight of 0.0035 gives a peak conductance of 1nS in 0Mg COMMENT ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simple model for glutamate AMPA receptors ========================================= - FIRST-ORDER KINETICS, FIT TO WHOLE-CELL RECORDINGS Whole-cell recorded postsynaptic currents mediated by AMPA/Kainate receptors (Xiang et al., J. Neurophysiol. 71: 2552-2556, 1994) were used to estimate the parameters of the present model; the fit was performed using a simplex algorithm (see Destexhe et al., J. Computational Neurosci. 1: 195-230, 1994). - SHORT PULSES OF TRANSMITTER (0.3 ms, 0.5 mM) The simplified model was obtained from a detailed synaptic model that included the release of transmitter in adjacent terminals, its lateral diffusion and uptake, and its binding on postsynaptic receptors (Destexhe and Sejnowski, 1995). Short pulses of transmitter with first-order kinetics were found to be the best fast alternative to represent the more detailed models. - ANALYTIC EXPRESSION The first-order model can be solved analytically, leading to a very fast mechanism for simulating synapses, since no differential equation must be solved (see references below). References Destexhe, A., Mainen, Z.F. and Sejnowski, T.J. An efficient method for computing synaptic conductances based on a kinetic model of receptor binding Neural Computation 6: 10-14, 1994. Destexhe, A., Mainen, Z.F. and Sejnowski, T.J. Synthesis of models for excitable membranes, synaptic transmission and neuromodulation using a common kinetic formalism, Journal of Computational Neuroscience 1: 195-230, 1994. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENDCOMMENT NEURON { POINT_PROCESS AmpaNmda RANGE R, g, mg, inmda, iampa, gnmda, gampa RANGE x, mgid, ggid, srcgid, gmax NONSPECIFIC_CURRENT i GLOBAL Cdur, Alpha, Beta, E, Rinf, Rtau, ampatau GLOBAL gampafactor, nmdafactor GLOBAL ltdinvl, ltpinvl, sighalf, sigslope } UNITS { (nA) = (nanoamp) (mV) = (millivolt) (umho) = (micromho) (mM) = (milli/liter) } PARAMETER { Cdur = 1 (ms) : transmitter duration (rising phase) Alpha = 0.35 (/ms) : forward (binding) rate Beta = 0.035 (/ms) : backward (unbinding) rate E = 0 (mV) : reversal potential mg = 1 (mM) : external magnesium concentration gmax = 2 (umho) gampafactor = 0.001 (1) nmdafactor = 0.0035 (1) ltdinvl = 250 (ms) : longer intervals, no change ltpinvl = 33.33 (ms) : shorter interval, LTP sighalf = 25 (1) sigslope = 3 (1) ampatau = 3 (ms) x = 0 (um) : cartesian synapse location mgid = -1 : associated mitral gid ggid = -1 : associated granule gid srcgid = -1 : gid of the mitral detector } ASSIGNED { v (mV) : postsynaptic voltage i (nA) : total current = iampa+inmda inmda (nA) : current = gnmda*(v - E) iampa (nA) : current = gampa*(v - E) gnmda (umho) : Rinf : steady state channels open Rtau (ms) : time constant of channel binding synon } STATE {Ron Roff gampa (umho) } INITIAL { PROTECT Rinf = Alpha / (Alpha + Beta) PROTECT Rtau = 1 / (Alpha + Beta) synon = 0 gampa = 0 } BREAKPOINT { SOLVE release METHOD cnexp gnmda = mgblock(v)*(Ron + Roff)*gmax*nmdafactor inmda = gnmda*(v - E) iampa = gampa*(v - E) i = iampa + inmda } DERIVATIVE release { Ron' = (synon*Rinf - Ron)/Rtau Roff' = -Beta*Roff gampa' = -gampa/ampatau } : following supports both saturation from single input and : summation from multiple inputs : if spike occurs during CDur then new off time is t + CDur : ie. transmitter concatenates but does not summate : Note: automatic initialization of all reference args to 0 except first FUNCTION mgblock(v(mV)) { TABLE DEPEND mg FROM -140 TO 80 WITH 1000 : from Jahr & Stevens mgblock = 1 / (1 + exp(0.062 (/mV) * -v) * (mg / 3.57 (mM))) } FUNCTION plast(step(1))(1) { plast = 1 - 1/(1 + exp((step - sighalf)/sigslope)) } NET_RECEIVE(weight, s, w, tlast (ms), r0, t0 (ms)) { INITIAL { s = 0 w = 0 tlast = -1e9 (ms) r0 = 0 t0 = -1e9 (ms) } : flag is an implicit argument of NET_RECEIVE and normally 0 if (flag == 0) { : a spike, so turn on if not already in a Cdur pulse : plasticity affects this spike. If desired to affect : the next spike then put following group after : net_send if (t - tlast < ltpinvl) { : LTP s = s + 1 if (s > 2*sighalf) { s = 2*sighalf } }else if (t - tlast > ltdinvl) { : no change }else{ : LTD s = s - 1 if (s < 0) { s = 0 } } tlast = t w = weight*plast(s) gampa = gampa + w*gmax*gampafactor r0 = r0*exp(-Beta*(t - t0)) t0 = t synon = synon + w Ron = Ron + r0 Roff = Roff - r0 : come again in Cdur with flag = current value of w+1 net_send(Cdur, w + 1) }else{ : turn off what was added Cdur ago r0 = (flag-1)*Rinf + (r0 - (flag-1)*Rinf)*exp(-(t - t0)/Rtau) t0 = t synon = synon - (flag-1) Ron = Ron - r0 Roff = Roff + r0 } }