Fly lobular plate VS cell (Borst and Haag 1996, et al. 1997, et al. 1999)

In a series of papers the authors conducted experiments to develop understanding and models of fly visual system HS, CS, and VS neurons. This model recreates the VS neurons from those papers with enough success to merit approval by Borst although some discrepancies remain (see readme).

Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell

Region(s) or Organism(s): Drosophila

Cell Type(s): Fly lobular plate vertical system cell

Currents: I Na,t; I K; I_K,Na

Model Concept(s): Reliability; Vision

Simulation Environment: NEURON

Implementer(s): Carnevale, Ted [Ted.Carnevale at Yale.edu]; Torben-Nielsen, Ben [btorbennielsen at gmail.com]

References:

Borst A, Haag J. (1996). The intrinsic electrophysiological characteristics of fly lobula plate tangential cells: I. Passive membrane properties. Journal of computational neuroscience. 3 [PubMed]

Haag J, Theunissen F, Borst A. (1997). The intrinsic electrophysiological characteristics of fly lobula plate tangential cells: II. Active membrane properties. Journal of computational neuroscience. 4 [PubMed]

Haag J, Vermeulen A, Borst A. (1999). The intrinsic electrophysiological characteristics of fly lobula plate tangential cells: III. Visual response properties. Journal of computational neuroscience. 7 [PubMed]