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Does NEURON automatically update Equilibrium potential?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:49 pm
by gabrielleg
If I'm writing a mechanism for internal calcium accumulation that is similar to Example 9.6 for Extracellular Potassium Accumulation (in the NEURON Book), can I explicitly calculate a new equilibrium potential for calcium (eca) in that mechanism, or does NEURON update eca automatically without my having to write any code?
-g
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 2:27 am
by ted
Good question.
If a section contains a mechanism that WRITEs an ionic concentration, NEURON will
automatically recompute the corresponding equilibrium potential on every fadvance().
For a more thorough discussion of this and other issues related to equilibrium potentials
and concentrations, see the documentation of ion_style() in the Programmer's Reference
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/stati ... #ion_style