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 }