TITLE Intracellular calcium concentration in deep cerebellar nucleus (DCN) neuron
COMMENT
This mechanism keeps track of intracellular calcium entering the cell through
the CaHVA channel. The calcium concentration is for a hypothetical shell
below the membrane of the cell, and affects the conductance level of the SK.mod
channel mechanism. In addition, it affects the conductance of the CaHVA channel
which uses the GHK equation to calculate current flow.
Translated from GENESIS by Johannes Luthman and Volker Steuber.
ENDCOMMENT
NEURON {
SUFFIX CaConc
USEION ca READ ica WRITE cai
RANGE cai, kCa, depth
GLOBAL tauCa
}
UNITS {
(molar) = (1 / liter)
(mM) = (millimolar)
(mV) = (millivolt)
(mA) = (milliamp)
PI = (pi) (1)
}
PARAMETER {
: qdeltat has been skipped here and is used via the division of this NMODL's
: tauCa when it's inserted (in hoc).
: kCa in the following is given for the soma and shall be adjusted
: from hoc when the CaConc model is inserted in a dendrite: 1.04e-6
: in the dendritic compartments units. kCa is here given as 1 / coulombs
: instead of moles / coulomb as in the GENESIS code since mole
: in NEURON simply equals the number 6.022 * 10e23
kCa = 3.45e-7 (1/coulomb)
tauCa = 70 (ms)
caiBase = 50e-6 (mM) : the assumed resting level of intracellular calcium
depth = 0.2 (micron)
}
ASSIGNED {
C (kilo / m3 / s)
D (kilo / m3 / s)
ica (mA/cm2)
}
STATE {
cai (mM)
}
INITIAL {
cai = caiBase
}
BREAKPOINT {
SOLVE states METHOD cnexp
}
DERIVATIVE states {
C = (cai - caiBase) / tauCa
D = - kCa / depth * ica * (1e4)
cai' = D - C
}