COMMENT
Uses electroneutral, exponentially decaying IP3 source
to emulate effect of activating bradykinin receptors on IP3.
Equivalent to approach used by Fink et al. 2000
to represent bradykinin action.
ENDCOMMENT
NEURON {
SUFFIX bkr
USEION ip3 WRITE iip3 VALENCE 1
NONSPECIFIC_CURRENT ix
RANGE jbar, beta, j, i
GLOBAL del
}
UNITS {
(um) = (micron)
(molar) = (1/liter)
(uM) = (micromolar)
(mA) = (milliamp)
FARADAY = (faraday) (coulomb)
}
PARAMETER {
del (ms) : time at which it starts
k = 1.188e-3 (/ms) : k0
jbar = 20.86 (uM um/s) : J0 flux at onset
beta = 1 (1) : scale factor for local variation of bradykinin receptor density
}
ASSIGNED {
jip3 (micro/um2 ms) : IP3 flux generated at membrane in micromoles/um2 ms
iip3 (mA/cm2) : ip3 current
ix (mA/cm2) : to cancel out polarizing effect of the ip3 current
}
INITIAL {
jip3 = 0
iip3 = 0
ix = 0
}
BREAKPOINT {
at_time(del) : when it turns on
at_time(del + (10/k)) : when to stop calculating very small exponentials
: produced at inner surface of membrane upon application of bradykinin
if (t > del && t <= del + (10/k)) {
jip3 = (1e-18)*beta*jbar*exp(-k*(t-del))
}else{
jip3 = 0
}
iip3 = -(1e8)*jip3*FARADAY
ix = -iip3
}