Location: Plant, 1981 @ 2523327e4098 / plant_1981.cellml

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Date:
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CREATED :  23rd January 2003

LAST MODIFIED : 9th April 2003

AUTHOR :  Catherine Lloyd
          The 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 Plant's 1981 mathematical model of bursting nerve cells. 

CHANGES:  
  09/04/2003 - AAC - Added publication date information.  
 
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  <title>Parabolic Bursting in 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>
When exposed to a threshold concentration of glucose, pancreatic beta-cells from a wide range of species exhibit a complicated pattern of electrical activity.  Bursts of action potential spikes (the "active" phase) are observed, separated by a "silent" phase of membrane repolarisation.  At even higher glucose concentrations, continuous action potentials are seen.  This electrical activity has two important physiological correlates: increased cytosolic Ca<superscript>2+</superscript> concentration ([Ca<superscript>2+</superscript>]<subscript>i</subscript>) and increased rate of insulin secretion during the active phase.  It is generally accepted that the rise in [Ca<superscript>2+</superscript>]<subscript>i</subscript> plays a major role in insulin secretion and that the action potential spikes during a burst are responsible for the rise in [Ca<superscript>2+</superscript>]<subscript>i</subscript>.
</para>

<para>
Bursting in pancreatic beta-cells is a well studied phenomenon, and many mathematical models describing the process have been developed, including:
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                <ulink url="${HTML_EXMPL_MITOCHONDRIAL_CA_HANDLING}">Magnus and Keizer, 1997</ulink>
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                <ulink url="${HTML_EXMPL_MAGNUS_MODEL}">Magnus and Keizer, 1999</ulink>
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                <ulink url="${HTML_EXMPL_GALL_MODEL}">Gall and Susa, 1999</ulink>
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                <ulink url="${HTML_EXMPL_BERTRAM_MODEL}">Bertram <emphasis>et al.</emphasis>, 2000</ulink>
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<para>
Another well studied example of busting is found in neurons (for example see the model by <ulink url="${HTML_EXMPL_FRIEL_MODEL}">Friel, 1995</ulink>).  Analysis of a detailed mathematical model developed by Plant in 1981 reveals that the structure of this bursting oscillator is different from that in the beta-cell model.  Where the beta-cell model has bistability, in Plant's model, oscillations arise from the autonomous activity of two slow variables.  The bursting period is almost a parabolic function of time, which has lead to the name <emphasis>parabolic</emphasis> bursting.   
</para>

<para>
Plant's model is similar to the beta-cell model in that it has a Ca<superscript>2+</superscript>-activated K<superscript>+</superscript> channel and a voltage-gated K<superscript>+</superscript> channel.  However, it is distinct by having a voltage gated Na<superscript>+</superscript> channel and a slowly activating Ca<superscript>2+</superscript> current.  The Na<superscript>+</superscript>, K<superscript>+</superscript>, and leak currents form the fast subsystem, while the Ca<superscript>2+</superscript> current forms the slow subsystem (see the figure below for a description of the model).  
</para>

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

<para>
Bifurcation and resonance in a model for bursting nerve cells, R.E. Plant, 1981, <ulink url="http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00285/index.htm">
            <emphasis>Journal of Mathematical Biology</emphasis>
          </ulink>, 11, 15-32.  <ulink url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=7252375&amp;dopt=Abstract">PubMed ID: 7252375</ulink> 
</para>

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<caption>A schematic representation of the transmebrane ionic currents described by the Plant 1981 model of a bursting neuron.  The model includes a voltage dependent sodium current, I<subscript>Na</subscript>; a slowly activating calcium current, I<subscript>Ca</subscript>; a voltage gated potassium current, I<subscript>K</subscript>; a calcium activated potassium current, I<subscript>K,Ca</subscript>; and a leak current, I<subscript>L</subscript>.</caption>
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