TITLE simple NMDA receptors COMMENT ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Essentially the same as /examples/nrniv/netcon/ampa.mod in the NEURON distribution - i.e. Alain Destexhe's simple AMPA model - but with different binding and unbinding rates and with a magnesium block. Modified by Andrew Davison, The Babraham Institute, May 2000 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. Orignal file by: Kiki Sidiropoulou Adjusted Cdur = 1 and Beta= 0.01 for better nmda spikes PROCEDURE rate: FROM -140 TO 80 WITH 1000 Modified by: Joe Graham joe.w.graham@gmail.com 2017/09/18 From: https://senselab.med.yale.edu/ModelDB/showmodel.cshtml?model=230811&file=/PapoutsiEtAl2017/mod_files/NMDA.mod#tabs-2 * changed calcium handling * changed Beta from 0.01 to 0.0015 to get nice plateaus ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENDCOMMENT NEURON { POINT_PROCESS NMDAeee RANGE g, Alpha, Beta, e, ica, Cdur, gmax USEION ca READ cai,cao WRITE ica :USEION ca WRITE ica NONSPECIFIC_CURRENT iNMDA GLOBAL mg, Cmax, fracca } UNITS { (nA) = (nanoamp) (mV) = (millivolt) (umho) = (micromho) (mM) = (milli/liter) FARADAY = (faraday) (coulomb) R = (k-mole) (joule/degC) } PARAMETER { Cmax = 1 (mM) : max transmitter concentration Cdur = 1 (ms) : transmitter duration (rising phase) Alpha = 4 (/ms /mM) : forward (binding) rate (4) Beta = 0.0015 (/ms) : reverse (unbinding) rate e = 0 (mV) : reversal potential mg = 1 (mM) : external magnesium concentration fracca = 0.13 : fraction of current that is ca ions; Spruston et al 95 gmax = 1 (uS) } ASSIGNED { v (mV) : postsynaptic voltage iNMDA (nA) : current = g*(v - e) g (umho) : conductance Rinf : steady state channels open Rtau (ms) : time constant of channel binding synon B : magnesium block ica cai (mM) cao (mM) } STATE {Ron Roff} INITIAL { Rinf = Cmax*Alpha / (Cmax*Alpha + Beta) Rtau = 1 / (Cmax*Alpha + Beta) synon = 0 } BREAKPOINT { SOLVE release METHOD cnexp B = mgblock(v) g = (Ron + Roff) * B * gmax iNMDA = g * (v - e) * (1-fracca) : iNMDA = g*(v - e) if(fracca > 0.0){ica = g * ghkg(v,cai,cao,2) * fracca} } INCLUDE "ghk.inc" DERIVATIVE release { Ron' = (synon * Rinf - Ron) / Rtau Roff' = -Beta * Roff } FUNCTION mgblock(v(mV)) { TABLE DEPEND mg FROM -140 TO 80 WITH 1000 mgblock = 1 / (1 + exp(0.062 (/mV) * -v) * (mg / 3.57 (mM))) : from Jahr & Stevens, 1990 J Neurosci } : 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 NET_RECEIVE(weight, on, nspike, r0, t0 (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 nspike = nspike + 1 if (!on) { r0 = r0 * exp(-Beta * (t - t0)) t0 = t on = 1 synon = synon + weight state_discontinuity(Ron, Ron + r0) state_discontinuity(Roff, Roff - r0) } : come again in Cdur with flag = current value of nspike net_send(Cdur, nspike) } if (flag == nspike) { : if this associated with last spike then turn off r0 = weight * Rinf + (r0 - weight * Rinf) * exp(-(t - t0) / Rtau) t0 = t synon = synon - weight state_discontinuity(Ron, Ron - r0) state_discontinuity(Roff, Roff + r0) on = 0 } }