TITLE Kv14.mod - modified potassium channels
COMMENT
This is a Hodgkin-Huxley model of inactivating K channels
modified from hh.mod
P. Jonas, 12 September 2001
temperature dependence is given up - Q10 scaling is not used any longer
Reference: Hines and Carnevale, Expanding NEURON's repertoire of mechanisms with NMODL, Neural Computation 12, 839-851, 2000
23 October 2001, new version for Faklers Kv1.4 wild type
18 November 2001 - final version, as published in Wissmann et al., JBC 278, 16142-16150
ENDCOMMENT
UNITS {
(mA) = (milliamp)
(mV) = (millivolt)
}
NEURON {
THREADSAFE
SUFFIX Kv14 : KIn
USEION k READ ek WRITE ik : local K may affect ion flux, and ion fluc may affect local K
RANGE gkbar, gk, scale_a, scale_i, ik : functions of position
GLOBAL vshift
}
PARAMETER {
gkbar = .0 (mho/cm2) <0,1e9> : so these parameter are viewed and can be changed in GUI
scale_a = 1.0
scale_i = 1.0
vshift = 0 (mV)
}
STATE {
n h : n for activation, h for inactivation
}
ASSIGNED {
v (mV) : variables given values outside the mod file
celsius (degC)
ek (mV)
gk (mho/cm2) : variables that appear on left hand side of assigment statements within the mod file
ik (milliamp/cm2)
ninf
ntau (ms)
hinf
htau (ms)
}
BREAKPOINT { : this block is responsible for making all variables consistent at time t
SOLVE states METHOD cnexp
gk = gkbar*n*n*n*n*h
ik = gk*(v - ek)
}
INITIAL {
rates(v)
n = ninf
h = hinf
}
DERIVATIVE states {
rates(v)
n' = (ninf-n)/ntau
h' = (hinf-h)/htau
}
PROCEDURE rates(v(mV)) { :Computes rate and other constants at current v.
:Call once from HOC to initialize inf at resting v.
LOCAL alpha, beta, sum
UNITSOFF
alpha = scale_a*.01*vtrap((-55+vshift-v),10)
beta = scale_a*.125*exp((-65+vshift-v)/80)
sum = alpha + beta
ntau = 1/sum
ninf = alpha/sum
alpha = scale_i*0.0000256077*exp((vshift-v)/45.4217)
beta = scale_i*0.0330402/(exp((-45.6599+vshift-v)/2.30235) + 1) :Recombinant Kv1.4
sum = alpha + beta
htau = 1/sum
hinf = alpha/sum
}
FUNCTION vtrap(x,y) { :Traps for 0 in denominator of rate eqns., based on three terms of infinite series expansion of exp
if (fabs(x/y) < 1e-6) {
vtrap = y*(1 - x/y/2)
} else {
vtrap = x/(exp(x/y) - 1)
}
}
UNITSON