/************************ VTA v2.14 BK.g ********************* *****Equations and Parameters for Big conductance calcium activated potassium channel***** *****BK is both voltage and calcium dependent Rebekah Evans rebekah.evans@nih.gov **************************************************************************/ //reference: Jaffe et al. 2011, neuroscience //using ab4 parameters as the beta4 subunit is strongly expressed in SNc neurons (piwonska et al., 2008 neuroscience) function make_BK_channel str path = "BK_channel" float Erev=-0.090 int xdivs = 100 int ydivs = {xdivs} float xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax xmin = -0.1; xmax = 0.05; ymin = 0.0; ymax = 0.005 // x = Vm, Volts; y = [Ca],mM create tab2Dchannel {path} setfield {path} Ek {Erev} Xindex {VOLT_C1_INDEX} Xpower 1 Ypower 0 Zpower 0 call {path} TABCREATE X {xdivs} {xmin} {xmax} {ydivs} {ymin} {ymax} int i, j float xincrement = (xmax - xmin)*1e3/{xdivs} float yincrement = (ymax - ymin)/{ydivs} float x = -100.00 echo "Make BK channel" for (i = 0; i <= xdivs; i = i + 1) float y = ymin //float y = 0.0034 for (j = 0; j <= ydivs; j = j + 1) float minf = {BK_inf {x} {y}} float mtau = {BK_tau {x} {y}} //tab2Dchannels have no tweaktau option, so must convert inf and tau to alpha and beta. //X_A field takes alphas, and X_B field takes alpha+beta (which is 1/tau) float alphabeta = {1/{mtau}} float alpha = {{minf}/{mtau}} setfield BK_channel X_A->table[{i}][{j}] {alpha} setfield BK_channel X_B->table[{i}][{j}] {alphabeta} y = y + yincrement end x = x + xincrement end setfield BK_channel X_A->calc_mode {LIN_INTERP} setfield BK_channel X_B->calc_mode {LIN_INTERP} end