/******************************************************/ /* A simple model of a single AZ at the calyx of Held */ /* */ /* Simulation parameters */ /* */ /* Matthias Hennig */ /* mhennig@inf.ed.ac.uk */ /******************************************************/ /* source: https://senselab.med.yale.edu/ModelDB/showmodel.cshtml?model=85981 */ /* Modified by D.Kufel on 08/08/2016 */ /* Some parameters corrected to be equal to the Postlethwaite et al. 2007 - there */ /* were some discrepancies originally (compare with the source) */ /* KINETICS *********************/ /* factors to translate rate constants for temperature 25C -> 35C */ tf = 1.0 /* AMPAR kinetics */ tfd = 1.0 /* diffusion */ /* AMPA receptor rate constants */ Rb = 10e6 * tf Ru1 = 8e3 * tf Ro1 = 20e3 * tf Rc1 = 10e3 * tf Rd0 = 4e3 * tf Rd1 = 4e3 * tf Rr1 = 0.015e3 * tf Rd2 = 10e6 * tf Rr2 = 8e3 * tf /* glutamate diffusion */ /* [cm^2/s], Franks et al., 2002 */ D = tfd * 3.0e-6 /* GEOMETRY *********************/ /* vesicle diameter */ /* [\mu m], Sätzler et al., 2002, assuming membrane thickness 6nm */ /* 40nm => volume 133510nm^3 => box d=32nm */ vDiam = 0.032 /* fusion pore dimensions */ fpD = 0.009 fpL = 0.009 /* approx 1.5 * membrane thickness */ /* synaptic cleft */ /* diameter of PSD in [\mu m], == area 0.1 \mu m^2, Sätzler et al., 2002 */ Rex = 0.317 /* separation in [\mu m] , volume 0.0028 \mu m^3, Sätzler et al., 2002 */ cleft = 0.028 /* assuming 80 AMPARs/AZ */ AMPAR_number = 80 /* extra-PSD AMPARs */ AMPAR_number_far = 0 /* the same expressed as density */ AMPAR_density = 796 AMPAR_density_far = 0 /* number of glu molecules/vesicle */ n = 6000 /* glu transporters */ GluT_density = 0 /* no transporters in calyx reported (only glial) */ vesicle_pos = 0.0