Effect of channel block on the spiking activity of excitable membranes in a stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley model

Details Effect of channel block on the spiking activity of excitable membranes in a stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley model Effect of channel block on the spiking activity of excitable membranes in a stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley model

2006-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0601013v1

PHYSICAL BIOLOGY 1, pp. 61-66 (2004)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Subcellular Processes

10 pages, 3 figures, published 2004

Scientific paper

10.1088/1478-3967/1/2/002

The influence of intrinsic channel noise on the spontaneous spiking activity of poisoned excitable membrane patches is studied by use of a stochastic generalization of the Hodgkin-Huxley model. Internal noise stemming from the stochastic dynamics of individual ion channels is known to affect the collective properties of the whole ion channel cluster. For example, there exists an optimal size of the membrane patch for which the internal noise alone causes a regular spontaneous generation of action potentials. In addition to varying the size of ion channel clusters, living organisms may adapt the densities of ion channels in order to optimally regulate the spontaneous spiking activity. The influence of channel block on the excitability of a membrane patch of certain size is twofold: First, a variation of ion channel densities primarily yields a change of the conductance level. Second, a down-regulation of working ion channels always increases the channel noise. While the former effect dominates in the case of sodium channel block resulting in a reduced spiking activity, the latter enhances the generation of spontaneous action potentials in the case of a tailored potassium channel blocking. Moreover, by blocking some portion of either potassium or sodium ion channels, it is possible to either increase or to decrease the regularity of the spike train.

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