TITLE KCNQ potassium channel for GPe neuron COMMENT modeled by Gunay et al., 2008 implemented in NEURON by Kitano, 2011 Threadsafe and unit checking, P.B. Manis, 2014 ENDCOMMENT UNITS { (mV) = (millivolt) (mA) = (milliamp) } NEURON { THREADSAFE SUFFIX kcnq USEION k READ ek WRITE ik RANGE gbar, gk, iKCNQ } PARAMETER { v (mV) dt (ms) gbar = 0.001 (mho/cm2) iKCNQ = 0.0 (mA/cm2) ek (mV) theta_m = -61.0 (mV) k_m = 19.5 (mV) tau_m0 = 6.7 (ms) tau_m1 = 100.0 (ms) phi_m = -61.0 (mV) sigma_m0 = 35.0 (mV) sigma_m1 = -25.0 (mV) } STATE { m } ASSIGNED { ik (mA/cm2) gk (mho/cm2) minf taum (ms) } BREAKPOINT { SOLVE states METHOD cnexp gk = gbar*m*m*m*m ik = gk * (v-ek) iKCNQ = ik } INITIAL { settables(v) m = minf } DERIVATIVE states { settables(v) m' = (minf - m)/taum } PROCEDURE settables(v (mV)) { TABLE minf, taum FROM -100 TO 100 WITH 400 minf = 1.0 / (1.0 + exp((theta_m - v)/k_m)) taum = tau_m0 + (tau_m1 - tau_m0)/(exp((phi_m - v)/sigma_m0) + exp((phi_m - v)/sigma_m1)) }