%------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ % % Title: Calcium Signals in Small Structures % Filename: CaSignal_Exp4DSphere.par % Author: Ronald van Elburg % % Associated Paper: % Cornelisse LN, van Elburg RAJ, Meredith RM, Yuste R, Mansvelder HD (2007) % High Speed Two-Photon Imaging of Calcium Dynamics in Dendritic Spines: % Consequences for Spine Calcium Kinetics and Buffer Capacity. % PLoS ONE 2(10): e1073 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001073 % % % % %------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Structure = Sphere_Structure% Make it a sphere path = ".\" % If running under Windows, specify here the path to the % directory containing the script imported below file = path "CaSignal_main.par" include file % Import the simulation parameters from the main script % Auxilary variables for monitoring concentrations at different distances from the membrane NoOfSteps = 6 % number of shells in the output (NOT IN THE SIMULATION, THERE THE GRIDSIZE DEFINES THE COMPARTMENTS) dR=R_Structure/NoOfSteps R1k=(NoOfSteps-0.5)*dR R2k=(NoOfSteps-1.5)*dR R3k=(NoOfSteps-2.5)*dR R4k=(NoOfSteps-3.5)*dR R5k=(NoOfSteps-4.5)*dR R6k=(NoOfSteps-5.5)*dR CaBoundary:=Ca[R_Source] Ca1 := Ca[R1k] ; Dye1 := Dye[R1k] ; BndDye1 := Total_Dye-Dye[R1k] ;EndoB1 := EndogenousBuffer [R1k] Ca2 := Ca[R2k] ; Dye2 := Dye[R2k] ; BndDye2 := Total_Dye-Dye[R2k] ;EndoB2 := EndogenousBuffer [R2k] Ca3 := Ca[R3k] ; Dye3 := Dye[R3k] ; BndDye3 := Total_Dye-Dye[R3k] ;EndoB3 := EndogenousBuffer [R3k] Ca4 := Ca[R4k] ; Dye4 := Dye[R4k] ; BndDye4 := Total_Dye-Dye[R4k] ;EndoB4 := EndogenousBuffer [R4k] Ca5 := Ca[R5k] ; Dye5 := Dye[R5k] ; BndDye5 := Total_Dye-Dye[R5k] ;EndoB5 := EndogenousBuffer [R5k] Ca6 := Ca[R6k] ; Dye6 := Dye[R6k] ; BndDye6 := Total_Dye-Dye[R6k] ;EndoB6 := EndogenousBuffer [R6k] CaAverage:=Ca[] ; DyeAverage:=Dye[] ; BndDyeAverage:=Total_Dye-Dye[] ;EndoBAverage := EndogenousBuffer [] % Exporting the variables defined above to file Exp='4D' plot point.mute CaBoundary "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_CaBoundary" plot point.mute Ca1 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Ca1" plot point.mute Ca2 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Ca2" plot point.mute Ca3 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Ca3" plot point.mute Ca4 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Ca4" plot point.mute Ca5 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Ca5" plot point.mute Ca6 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Ca6" plot point.mute CaAverage "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_CaAverage" plot point.mute Dye1 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Dye1" plot point.mute Dye2 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Dye2" plot point.mute Dye3 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Dye3" plot point.mute Dye4 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Dye4" plot point.mute Dye5 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Dye5" plot point.mute Dye6 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_Dye6" plot point.mute DyeAverage "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_DyeAverage" plot point.mute BndDye1 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_BndDye1" plot point.mute BndDye2 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_BndDye2" plot point.mute BndDye3 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_BndDye3" plot point.mute BndDye4 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_BndDye4" plot point.mute BndDye5 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_BndDye5" plot point.mute BndDye6 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_BndDye6" plot point.mute BndDyeAverage "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_BndDyeAverage" plot point.mute EndoB1 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_EndoB1" plot point.mute EndoB2 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_EndoB2" plot point.mute EndoB3 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_EndoB3" plot point.mute EndoB4 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_EndoB4" plot point.mute EndoB5 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_EndoB5" plot point.mute EndoB6 "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_EndoB6" plot point.mute EndoBAverage "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_EndoBAverage" plot point.mute CalciumCurrent "Output\Exp""Exp""\CSE4DS_CalciumCurrent" % The adaptive integration method fails for the fast calcium change % to overcome this problem we run the first 20 ms with a fixed timestep % of 0.001 ms, then after the fast changes we switch to the adaptive method % for optimal performance. Run 20.0 1.0e-3 ; current CalciumCurrent Run adaptive 480.0 1.0e-3 accuracy; current CalciumCurrent