Location: Butera, Rinzel, Smith, 1999 @ 7b0917439094 / butera_rinzel_smith_1999.cellml

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CREATED :  9th May 2002

LAST MODIFIED : 20th April 2005

AUTHOR :  Catherine Lloyd
          Bioengineering Institute
          The University of Auckland
          
MODEL STATUS :  This model conforms to the CellML 1.0 Specification released on
10th August 2001, and the 16/01/2002 CellML Metadata 1.0 Specification.

DESCRIPTION :  This file contains a CellML description of Butera et al's first 1999 mathematical model of respiratory rhythm generation in the pre-Botzinger complex in bursting pacemaker neurons.

CHANGES:  
  18/07/2002 - CML - Added more metadata.
  09/04/2003 - AAC - Added publication date information.
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  <title>Models Of Respiratory Rhythm Generation In The Pre-Botzinger Complex. I. Bursting Pacemaker Neurons</title>
  <author>
    <firstname>Catherine</firstname>
          <surname>Lloyd</surname>
    <affiliation>
      <shortaffil>Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland</shortaffil>
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            This is the original unchecked version of the model imported from the previous
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<title>Model Structure</title>

<para>
Inhalation and exhalation movements associated with respiration in mammals are generated by networks of neurons in the lower brain stem that produce a rhythmic pattern of electrical activity.  The principal neuronal kernel for rhythm generation has been located in the pre-Botzinger complex, a subregion of the ventro-lateral medulla.  In order to understand respiratory rhythm generation, it is necessary to consider mechanisms incorporating intrinsic cellular pacemaker properties.  These mechanisms are captured by a hybrid pacemaker model (Smith 1997; Smith <emphasis>et al</emphasis>. 1995), in which a rhythm arises from the dynamic interactions of both intrinsic and synaptic properties within a bilaterally distributed population of coupled bursting pacemaker neurons.  ("Bursting" refers to a complicated pattern of electrical activity.  Bursts of action potential spikes (the "active" phase) are observed, separated by a "silent" phase of membrane repolarisation).
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<para>  
In their 1999 paper, Robert J. Butera, J<subscript>R</subscript>., John Rinzel and Jeffrey C. Smith present two computational versions of this hybrid pacemaker-network model (see <xref linkend="fig_cell_diagram1"/> and <xref linkend="fig_cell_diagram2"/> below).  In the first model, bursting arises via fast activation and slow inactivation of a persistent Na<superscript>+</superscript> current, I<subscript>NaP</subscript>.  In the second model, bursting arises via a fast-activating persistent Na<superscript>+</superscript> current, I<subscript>NaP</subscript>,(the inactivation term "h" has been removed) and slow activation of a K<superscript>+</superscript> current, I<subscript>KS</subscript>.  In both models, action potentials are generated via fast Na<superscript>+</superscript> and K<superscript>+</superscript> currents.  Both models are consistent with experimental data, and the authors suggest several experimental tests to demonstrate the validity of either model and to differentiate between the two mechanisms.
</para>

<para>
The complete original paper reference is cited below:
</para>

<para>
<ulink url="http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/82/1/382">Models of Respiratory Rhythm Generation in the Pre-Bötzinger Complex. I. Bursting Pacemaker Neurons</ulink>, Robert J. Butera, Jr., John Rinzel and Jeffrey C. Smith, 1999, <ulink url="http://jn.physiology.org/">
            <emphasis>Journal of Neurophysiology</emphasis>
          </ulink>, 81, 382-397.  (<ulink url="http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/82/1/382">Full text</ulink> and <ulink url="http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/82/1/382.pdf">PDF</ulink> versions of the article are available for Journal Members on the JN website.)  <ulink url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=10400966&amp;dopt=Abstract">PubMed ID: 10400966</ulink> 
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The raw CellML description of the model can be downloaded in various formats as described in <xref linkend="sec_download_this_model"/>
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<caption>The first mathematical model is based on a single-compartment Hodgkin-Huxley type formalism.  It is composed of five ionic currents across the plasma membrane: a fast sodium current, I<subscript>Na</subscript>; a delayed rectifier potassium current, I<subscript>K</subscript>; a persistent sodium current,  I<subscript>NaP</subscript>; a passive leakage current, I<subscript>L</subscript>; and a tonic current, I<subscript>tonic_e</subscript> (although this last current is considered to be inactive in these models).</caption>
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<caption>The second model appears identical to the first except with the addition of a slow K<superscript>+</superscript> current, I<subscript>KS</subscript>.  (The removal of the inactivation term "h" from I<subscript>NaP</subscript> is not visible in the model diagram.)</caption>
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