TITLE Calcium pump/buffering mechanism COMMENT Calcium accumulation into a volume of area*depth next to the membrane with a decay (time constant tau) to resting level given by the global calcium variable `cai0_ca_ion`. Used in Basket, Axoaxonic, Bistartfified, CCK+, VIP+/CCK+, and VIP+/CR+ cells. Based on Cutsuridis et al., 2010, Hippocampus, 20:423:446, doi: 10.1002/hipo.20661 ENDCOMMENT NEURON { SUFFIX ccanl USEION ca READ cai, ica, eca WRITE eca, cai RANGE caiinf, catau, cai, eca } UNITS { (molar) = (1/liter) (mM) = (millimolar) (um) = (micron) (mV) = (millivolt) (mA) = (milliamp) FARADAY = (faraday) (coulomb) R =(k-mole) (joule/degC) } PARAMETER { celsius = 6.3 (degC) depth = .2 (um) : assume volume = area*depth catau = 9 (ms) : takes precedence over `cai0_ca_ion` : Do not forget to initialize in hoc if different from this default. caiinf = 5e-5 (mM) : takes precedence over `cao0_ca_ion` cao = 2 (mM) } ASSIGNED { ica (mA/cm2) eca (mV) drive_channel (mM/ms) cai (mM) } STATE { ca (mM) } BREAKPOINT { SOLVE states METHOD euler eca = KTF(celsius) * log(cao/ca) } DERIVATIVE states { drive_channel = -(1e4)*ica/(depth*FARADAY) if (drive_channel <= 0.) { drive_channel = 0. } ca' = drive_channel + (caiinf/3 - ca)/catau cai = ca } INITIAL { ca = caiinf eca = KTF(celsius) * log(cao/ca) } FUNCTION KTF(celsius (degC)) (mV) { KTF = (1e3)*R*(celsius + 273.15(degC))/(2*FARADAY) }