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VIonGate Class Reference

#include <viongate.h>

Inheritance diagram for VIonGate:

List of all members.

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Detailed Description

Generic first order kinitics voltage dependend ion gate.

Generic first order kinitics voltage dependend ion gate.

The Model

An ion gate is model via the equation ( is an interger exponent) where the state variable obeys the first order kinetics

with the voltage dependent rate constants and . This equation can also be written in the (sometimes more convinient) form

with the following relations between the time ``constant'' and the ``resting'' value and the activation and inactivation parameters and .

Implementation

For an efficient computation we precalculate for each value of the integration parameters and for the exponential Euler integration and store them in a lookup table.

These are given by and .

Input/Output Signals

The calculated output of IonGate is . For its computations it needs the membrane voltage and resting potential of the associated object.

Implementig a specific IonGate

To actually implement a specific gate one has to derive a class from this one and implement either the pair of functions alpha(), beta() or the pair tau(), infty(). Not dooing so will cause an infity recursion fo the current implementation of IonGate.

Furthermore it is neccesarry that you include in your class definition of MyIonGate the macro IONGATE_TABLES and you also need in mygate.cpp the following two lines of code:

   double *MyIonGate::C1=0;
   double *MyIonGate::C2=0;
 

which define your tables for and .

Public Member Functions

• VIonGate (void)

  The constructor ..
  
  

• virtual void reset (void)

  Set the initial conditions for time : .
  
  

• virtual int updateInternal (void)

  Set the initial conditions for time : .
  
  

• virtual int advance (void)

  Advance one time step using exponential Euler integration.
  
  

• virtual double alpha (double V)

  The activation parameter .
  
  

• virtual double beta (double V)

  The inactivation parameter .
  
  

• virtual double tau (double V)

  The "time constant" .
  
  

• virtual double infty (double V)

  The "resting value" .
  
  

• virtual void ConnectToMembrane (MembranePatchSimple *m)

  The gate needs to know the membrane voltage which we set with this function.
  
  

• ~VIonGate (void)

Public Attributes

• float * Vresting

  A pointer to the relevant resting membrane potential.
  
  

• double * Vm

  A pointer to the relevant membrane potential.
  
  

• float * VmScale

  A pointer to the parameter that defines the difference between Vresting and the Vthresh for the calculation of the iongate tables.
  
  

Protected Member Functions

• virtual double * getC1 (void)

Static Protected Attributes

• double * C1 = 0
• double * C2 = 0

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

VIonGate::~VIonGate (  void    )  [inline]

(at least with gcc 2.95) the virtuals are not called correctly within the destructor

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Member Function Documentation

virtual double* VIonGate::getC1 (  void    )  [inline, protected, virtual]

virtual methods to correctly acces the static members C1 and C2 Reimplemented from IonGate. Reimplemented in HH_n_Gate, HH_m_Gate, HH_h_Gate, MmGate_Wang98, AmGate_Hoffman97, AhGate_Hoffman97, SICmGate_Maciokas02, SIChGate_Maciokas02, AnGate_Korngreen02, AlGate_Korngreen02, KnGate_Korngreen02, KlGate_Korngreen02, NPmGate_McCormick92, MnGate_Mainen96, HnGate_Stuart98, HVACAuGate_Brown93, HVACAvGate_Brown93, CALmGate_Destexhe98, and CALhGate_Destexhe98.

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Member Data Documentation

double * VIonGate::C1 = 0 [static, protected]

The look up table for the exponential Euler integration 'constant' Reimplemented from IonGate. Reimplemented in GVD_Gate, GVD_cT_Gate, HH_n_Gate, HH_m_Gate, HH_h_Gate, CaGate_Yamada98, MmGate_Wang98, AmGate_Hoffman97, AhGate_Hoffman97, SICmGate_Maciokas02, SIChGate_Maciokas02, AnGate_Korngreen02, AlGate_Korngreen02, KnGate_Korngreen02, KlGate_Korngreen02, NPmGate_McCormick92, MnGate_Mainen96, HnGate_Stuart98, HVACAuGate_Brown93, HVACAvGate_Brown93, CALmGate_Destexhe98, and CALhGate_Destexhe98.

double * VIonGate::C2 = 0 [static, protected]

The look up table for the exponential Euler integration 'constant' Reimplemented from IonGate. Reimplemented in GVD_Gate, GVD_cT_Gate, HH_n_Gate, HH_m_Gate, HH_h_Gate, CaGate_Yamada98, MmGate_Wang98, AmGate_Hoffman97, AhGate_Hoffman97, SICmGate_Maciokas02, SIChGate_Maciokas02, AnGate_Korngreen02, AlGate_Korngreen02, KnGate_Korngreen02, KlGate_Korngreen02, NPmGate_McCormick92, MnGate_Mainen96, HnGate_Stuart98, HVACAuGate_Brown93, HVACAvGate_Brown93, CALmGate_Destexhe98, and CALhGate_Destexhe98.

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