Calcium spikes in basal dendrites (Kampa and Stuart 2006)

This model was published in Kampa & Stuart (2006) J Neurosci 26(28):7424-32. The simulation creates two plots showing voltage and calcium changes in basal dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal neurons during action potential backpropagation. created by B. Kampa (2006)

Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell

Cell Type(s): Neocortex U1 L5B pyramidal pyramidal tract GLU cell

Currents: I L high threshold; I T low threshold; I A; I Sodium; I Potassium

Model Concept(s): Dendritic Action Potentials; Active Dendrites; Action Potentials; Synaptic Integration; Calcium dynamics

Simulation Environment: NEURON

Implementer(s): Kampa, Bjorn M [Bjoern.Kampa at anu.edu.au]

References:

Kampa BM, Stuart GJ. (2006). Calcium spikes in basal dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal neurons during action potential bursts. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 26 [PubMed]