TITLE Calcium ion accumulation with longitudinal and radial diffusion COMMENT PROCEDURE factors_cadifus() sets up the scale factors needed to model radial diffusion. These scale factors do not have to be recomputed when diam or DFree is changed. The amount of calcium in an annulus is ca[i]*diam^2*vol[i] with ca[0] being the 2nd order correct concentration at the exact edge and ca[NANN-1] being the concentration at the exact center. Buffer concentration and rates are based on Yamada et al. 1989 model of bullfrog sympathetic ganglion cell. ENDCOMMENT NEURON { SUFFIX cadifus USEION ca READ cai, ica WRITE cai GLOBAL vol, TotalBuffer RANGE cai0 THREADSAFE } DEFINE NANN 4 UNITS { (molar) = (1/liter) (mM) = (millimolar) (um) = (micron) (mA) = (milliamp) FARADAY = (faraday) (10000 coulomb) PI = (pi) (1) } PARAMETER { DCa = 0.6 (um2/ms) : to change rate of buffering without disturbing equilibrium : multiply the following two by the same factor k1buf = 100 (/mM-ms) k2buf = 0.1 (/ms) TotalBuffer = 0.004 (mM) cai0 = 50e-6 (mM) : Requires explicit use in INITIAL block } ASSIGNED { diam (um) ica (mA/cm2) cai (mM) vol[NANN] (1) : gets extra um2 when multiplied by diam^2 Kd (/mM) B0 (mM) } STATE { ca[NANN] (mM) <1e-6> : ca[0] is equivalent to cai CaBuffer[NANN] (mM) Buffer[NANN] (mM) } BREAKPOINT { SOLVE state METHOD sparse } LOCAL factors_done INITIAL { MUTEXLOCK if (factors_done == 0) { factors_done = 1 factors() } MUTEXUNLOCK cai = cai0 Kd = k1buf/k2buf B0 = TotalBuffer/(1 + Kd*cai) FROM i=0 TO NANN-1 { ca[i] = cai Buffer[i] = B0 CaBuffer[i] = TotalBuffer - B0 } } COMMENT factors() sets up factors needed for radial diffusion modeled by NANN concentric compartments. The outermost shell is half as thick as the other shells so the concentration is spatially second order correct at the surface of the cell. The radius of the cylindrical core equals the thickness of the outermost shell. The intervening NANN-2 shells each have thickness = r/(NANN-1) (NANN must be >= 2). ca[0] is at the edge of the cell, ca[NANN-1] is at the center of the cell, and ca[i] for 0 < i < NANN-1 is midway through the thickness of each annulus. ENDCOMMENT LOCAL frat[NANN] PROCEDURE factors() { LOCAL r, dr2 r = 1/2 :starts at edge (half diam) dr2 = r/(NANN-1)/2 :half thickness of annulus vol[0] = 0 frat[0] = 2*r FROM i=0 TO NANN-2 { vol[i] = vol[i] + PI*(r-dr2/2)*2*dr2 :interior half r = r - dr2 frat[i+1] = 2*PI*r/(2*dr2) :exterior edge of annulus : divided by distance between centers r = r - dr2 vol[i+1] = PI*(r+dr2/2)*2*dr2 :outer half of annulus } } LOCAL dsq, dsqvol : can't define local variable in KINETIC block : or use in COMPARTMENT KINETIC state { COMPARTMENT i, diam*diam*vol[i] {ca CaBuffer Buffer} LONGITUDINAL_DIFFUSION i, DCa*diam*diam*vol[i] {ca} ~ ca[0] << (-ica*PI*diam/(2*FARADAY)) FROM i=0 TO NANN-2 { ~ ca[i] <-> ca[i+1] (DCa*frat[i+1], DCa*frat[i+1]) } dsq = diam*diam FROM i=0 TO NANN-1 { dsqvol = dsq*vol[i] ~ ca[i] + Buffer[i] <-> CaBuffer[i] (k1buf*dsqvol, k2buf*dsqvol) } cai = ca[0] }