TITLE Na persistent channel : used in distal oblique dendrites to assist Ca spike initiation : : modified to use CVode --Carl Gold 08/12/03 : Updated by YiotaPoirazi 26/1/05 NEURON { SUFFIX nap USEION na READ ena WRITE ina RANGE gnabar,vhalf, K, ina } UNITS { (mA) = (milliamp) (mV) = (millivolt) } PARAMETER { K = 4.5 (1) : slope of steady state variable : gnabar = 0.001e-2 (mho/cm2) : suggested conductance, 1 percent of the transient Na current gnabar = 0 (mho/cm2) vhalf = -50.4 (mV) : half potential } ASSIGNED { v (mV) ena (mV) ina (mA/cm2) n_inf tau (ms) } STATE { n } BREAKPOINT { SOLVE states METHOD cnexp ina = gnabar*n*n*n*(v-ena) } INITIAL { rates(v) n = n_inf } DERIVATIVE states { rates(v) n' = (n_inf-n)/tau } PROCEDURE rates(v(mV)) { n_inf = 1 / (1 + (exp(vhalf - v)/K)) tau =1 }