From Squid to Mammals with the HH Model through the Nav Channels' Half-Activation-Voltage Parameter.

ABSTRACT: The model family analyzed in this work stems from the classical Hodgkin-Huxley model (HHM). for a single-compartment (space-clamp) and continuous variation of the voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav) half-activation-voltage parameter ΔV1/2, which controls the window of sodium-influx currents. Unlike the baseline HHM, its parametric extension exhibits a richer multitude of dynamic regimes, such as multiple fixed points (FP's), bi- and multi-stability (coexistence of FP's and/or periodic orbits). Such diversity correlates with a number of functional properties of excitable neural tissue, such as the capacity or not to evoke an action potential (AP) from the resting state, by applying a minimal absolute rheobase current amplitude. The utility of the HHM rooted in the giant squid for the descri

SUBMITTER: Krouchev NI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4667926 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature