: Intracellular calcium ion accumulation
NEURON {
SUFFIX acaint
USEION ca READ ica WRITE cai
GLOBAL nb
RANGE a, ku, kr, Bi, diffOc
}
UNITS {
(mV) = (millivolt)
(mA) = (milliamp)
FARADAY = (faraday) (coulombs)
(molar) = (1/liter)
(mM) = (millimolar)
}
PARAMETER {
a = 15e-4 (cm) : radius of cell
ku = 100 (/mM/ms) : rate constant for calcium buffer binding
kr = 0.238 (/ms) : rate constant for calcium buffer release
nb = 4 : number of binding sites on Calmodulin
Bi = 0.001 (mM) :Concentration of Calmodulin
SA = 2.82743E-05 (cm2) :Surface area of cell
Vol = 1.27e-8 (cm3) :vol of cell
}
ASSIGNED {
ica (mA/cm2)
diffOc (/ms)
}
STATE { cai (mM) Oc } :Oc is the fraction of Calmodulin binding sites that are occupied
BREAKPOINT { SOLVE state METHOD derivimplicit }
INITIAL {
Oc=.05
}
DERIVATIVE state {
LOCAL diffOc
diffOc=ku*cai*(1-Oc)-kr*Oc :Differential equation governing Calmodulin binding
Oc'=diffOc
cai' = -ica*(SA)/Vol/(2*FARADAY) + -nb*Bi*diffOc
}