Location: Noble, 1962 @ 38c6fe2cc915 / noble_1962.cellml

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Date:
2006-09-04 00:13:25+12:00
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committing version01 of noble_1962
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https://models.cellml.org/workspace/noble_1962/rawfile/38c6fe2cc91510732722877355755ddb2ef0c4be/noble_1962.cellml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!--  FILE :  noble_model_1962.xml

CREATED :  18th December 2001

LAST MODIFIED : 5th April 2003

AUTHOR :  Catherine Lloyd
          Department of Engineering Science
          The University of Auckland
          
MODEL STATUS :  This model conforms to the CellML 1.0 Specification released on
10th August 2001, and the working draft CellML Metadata 1.0 Specification released on 16th January 2002.

DESCRIPTION :  This file contains a CellML description of Noble's 1962 mathematical model of long lasting action and pace-maker potentials of the Purkinje fibres of the heart. 

CHANGES: 
  20/01/2002 - AAC - updated metadata to conform to 16/01/2002 CellML Metadata 
                     1.0 Specification.
  28/02/2002 - CML - Corrected membrane_voltage_diff_eq.
  05/04/2003 - AAC - Changed the model name so the model loads in the database 
                     easier.
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<documentation xmlns="http://cellml.org/tmp-documentation">
<article>
  <articleinfo>
  <title>Noble Purkinje Fibre Model 1962</title>
  <author>
    <firstname>Catherine</firstname>
          <surname>Lloyd</surname>
    <affiliation>
      <shortaffil>Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland</shortaffil>
    </affiliation>
  </author>
</articleinfo>
  <section id="sec_status">
    <title>Model Status</title>
    <para>
            This is the original unchecked version of the model imported from the previous
            CellML model repository, 24-Jan-2006.
          </para>
  </section>
  <sect1 id="sec_structure">
<title>Model Structure</title>

<para>
In 1962, Denis Noble published one of the first mathematical models of a cardiac cell.  By adapting the equations of the original <ulink url="${HTML_EXMPL_HHSA_INTRO}">Hodgkin-Huxley squid axon model (1952)</ulink>, Noble described the long lasting action and pace-maker potentials of the Purkinje fibres of the heart.  The potassium-current equations differ from those of Hodgkin and Huxley in that the potassium ions are assumed to flow through two types of channel in the membrane.  By contrast, the sodium current equations are very similar to those of Hodgkin and Huxley.
</para>

<para>
The main failure of the Noble (1962) model is that it only includes one voltage gated inward current, I<subscript>Na</subscript>.  Calcium currents had not yet been discovered, but there was a clue in the model that something was missing.  The only way the model could be made to work was to greatly extend the voltage range of the sodium current by reducing the voltage dependence of the sodium activation process.  In effect the sodium current was made to serve the function of both the sodium and the calcium channels as far as the plateau is concerned.  There was a clear experimental prediction: either sodium channels in the heart are quantitatively different from those in neurons, or other inward current-carrying channels must exist.  Both predictions are correct.
</para>

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

<para>
A Modification of the Hodgkin-Huxley Equations Applicable to Purkinje Fibre Action and Pace-maker Potentials, Noble, D. 1962 <ulink url="http://www.jphysiol.org/">
            <emphasis>Journal of Physiology</emphasis>
          </ulink>, 160, 317-352.  <ulink url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=14480151&amp;dopt=Abstract">PubMed ID: 14480151</ulink>
</para>

<para>
The raw CellML description of the Noble 1962 model can be downloaded in various formats as described in <xref linkend="sec_download_this_model"/>.  For an example of a more complete documentation for an electrophysiological model, see <ulink url="${HTML_EXMPL_HHSA_INTRO}">The Hodgkin-Huxley Squid Axon Model, 1952</ulink>. 
</para>

</sect1>
</article>
</documentation>
  

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    constants within the model. The identifiers are fairly self-explanatory.
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  -->
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    <variable units="millisecond" public_interface="out" name="time"/>
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  <!--
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    It defines the action potential variable "V" among other things.
  -->
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    <variable units="millivolt" public_interface="out" name="V"/>
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    <!--
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      differential equation in terms of the currents.
    -->
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            <minus/>
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          <divide/>
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            <apply>
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  <connection>
    <map_components component_2="environment" component_1="membrane"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="time" variable_1="time"/>
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    <map_variables variable_2="time" variable_1="time"/>
  </connection>


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    <map_components component_2="environment" component_1="potassium_channel"/>
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    <map_variables variable_2="time" variable_1="time"/>
  </connection>
  
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    <map_components component_2="sodium_channel" component_1="membrane"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="V" variable_1="V"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="i_Na" variable_1="i_Na"/>
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    <map_variables variable_2="V" variable_1="V"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="i_K" variable_1="i_K"/>
  </connection>


  <connection>
    <map_components component_2="leakage_current" component_1="membrane"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="V" variable_1="V"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="i_Leak" variable_1="i_Leak"/>
  </connection>
  
  <connection>
    <map_components component_2="sodium_channel_m_gate" component_1="sodium_channel"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="m" variable_1="m"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="time" variable_1="time"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="V" variable_1="V"/>
  </connection>


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    <map_variables variable_2="h" variable_1="h"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="time" variable_1="time"/>
    <map_variables variable_2="V" variable_1="V"/>
  </connection>


  <connection>
    <map_components component_2="potassium_channel_n_gate" component_1="potassium_channel"/>
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    <map_variables variable_2="time" variable_1="time"/>
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            Although the leakage current is not specifically included and 
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