Mathematics, Department of

 

Authors

Bo DengFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2009

Citation

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 8(2009), pp.255–297.

Abstract

A systematic circuit approach tomodel neurons with ion pump is presented here by which the voltage-gated current channels are modeled as conductors, the diffusion-induced current channels are modeled as negative resistors, and the one-way ion pumps are modeled as one-way inductors. The newly synthesized models are different from the type of models based on Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) approach which aggregates the electro, the diffusive, and the pump channels of each ion into one conductance channel. We show that our new models not only recover many known properties of the HH type models but also exhibit some new that cannot be extracted from the latter.

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