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Published on: May 9, 2021
Mathematical model of bursting in dissociated purkinje neurons
1Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom. mikeforrest@hotmail.com
Abstract:
In vitro, Purkinje cell behaviour is sometimes studied in a dissociated soma preparation in which the dendritic projection has been cleaved. A fraction of these dissociated somas spontaneously burst. The mechanism of this bursting is incompletely understood. We have constructed a biophysical Purkinje soma model, guided and constrained by experimental reports in the literature, that can replicate the somatically driven bursting pattern and which hypothesises Persistent Na(+) current (INaP) to be its burst initiator and SK K(+) current (ISK) to be its burst terminator.
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