COMMENT Two state kinetic scheme synapse described by rise time taur, and decay time constant taud. The normalized peak condunductance is 1. Decay time MUST be greater than rise time. The solution of A->G->bath with rate constants 1/taur and 1/taud is A = a*exp(-t/taur) and G = a*taud/(taud-taur)*(-exp(-t/taur) + exp(-t/taud)) where taur < taud If taud-taur -> 0 then we have a alphasynapse. and if taur -> 0 then we have just single exponential decay. The factor is evaluated in the initial block such that an event of weight 1 generates a peak conductance of 1. Because the solution is a sum of exponentials, the coupled equations can be solved as a pair of independent equations by the more efficient cnexp method. ENDCOMMENT NEURON { POINT_PROCESS ghknmda USEION na WRITE ina USEION k WRITE ik USEION ca READ cai, cao WRITE ica RANGE taur, taud RANGE inmda RANGE P, mg, Pmax GLOBAL mgb } UNITS { (nA) = (nanoamp) (mV) = (millivolt) (uS) = (microsiemens) (molar) = (1/liter) (mM) = (millimolar) FARADAY = (faraday) (coulomb) R = (k-mole) (joule/degC) } PARAMETER { taur=5 (ms) <1e-9,1e9> taud = 50 (ms) <1e-9,1e9> cai = 100e-6(mM) : 100nM cao = 2 (mM) nai = 18 (mM) : Set for a reversal pot of +55mV nao = 140 (mM) ki = 140 (mM) : Set for a reversal pot of -90mV ko = 5 (mM) celsius (degC) mg = 2 (mM) Pmax=1e-6 (cm/s) : According to Canavier, PNMDA's default value is : 1e-6 for 10uM, 1.4e-6 cm/s for 30uM of NMDA } ASSIGNED { ina (nA) ik (nA) ica (nA) v (mV) P (cm/s) factor mgb (1) inmda (nA) Area (cm2) } STATE { A (cm/s) B (cm/s) } INITIAL { LOCAL tp if (taur/taud > .9999) { taur = .9999*taud } A = 0 B = 0 tp = (taur*taud)/(taud - taur) * log(taud/taur) factor = -exp(-tp/taur) + exp(-tp/taud) factor = 1/factor Area=1 } BREAKPOINT { SOLVE state METHOD cnexp P=B-A mgb = mgblock(v) : Area is just for unit conversion of ghk output ina = P*mgb*ghk(v, nai, nao,1)*Area ica = P*10.6*mgb*ghk(v, cai, cao,2)*Area ik = P*mgb*ghk(v, ki, ko,1)*Area inmda = ica + ik + ina } DERIVATIVE state { A' = -A/taur B' = -B/taud } FUNCTION ghk(v(mV), ci(mM), co(mM),z) (0.001 coul/cm3) { LOCAL arg, eci, eco arg = (0.001)*z*FARADAY*v/(R*(celsius+273.15)) eco = co*efun(arg) eci = ci*efun(-arg) ghk = (0.001)*z*FARADAY*(eci - eco) } FUNCTION efun(z) { if (fabs(z) < 1e-4) { efun = 1 - z/2 }else{ efun = z/(exp(z) - 1) } } FUNCTION mgblock(v(mV)) (1){ TABLE DEPEND mg FROM -140 TO 80 WITH 1000 : from Jahr & Stevens, JNS, 1990 mgblock = 1 / (1 + exp(0.062 (/mV) * -v) * (mg / 3.57 (mM))) } NET_RECEIVE(weight (uS)) { : No use to weight, can be used instead of Pmax, : if you want NetCon access to the synaptic : conductance. state_discontinuity(A, A + Pmax*factor) state_discontinuity(B, B + Pmax*factor) }