Introduction to model

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Downloading the model

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TODO…

Versions of the Pyloric pacemaker network model

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### Boris Marin’s version

Electrophysiological data comes from this article: Gina Turrigiano, Gwendal LeMasson, and Eve Marder

Selective regulation of current densities underlies spontaneous changes in the activity of cultured neurons

[Journal of Neuroscience, 15(5 Pt 1), 3640–52, 1995](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7538565)

Model transcribed from this article: Astrid A. Prinz, Vatsala Thirumalai, and Eve Marder

The functional consequences of changes in the strength and duration of synaptic inputs to oscillatory neurons

[Journal of Neuroscience, 23(3), 943–54, 2003](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12574423)

This is in the neuroConstruct directory and currently runs in NEURON.

### Aditya Gilra’s version

The 3 cell network is for fig 3d from :

Similar network activity from disparate circuit parameters

Astrid A Prinz, Dirk Bucher & Eve Marder

Nature Neuroscience, 2004.

The cell models and channel mechanisms are from:

Alternative to Hand-Tuning Conductance-Based Models: Construction and Analysis of Databases of Model Neurons

Astrid A. Prinz, Cyrus P. Billimoria, and Eve Marder,

J Neurophysiol 90: 3998–4015, 2003.

The same cell is used as the basis for 3 cells AB\_PD, LP and PY with different channel densities,

 connected in the pyloric rhythm generator network specified in Fig 3d of Prinz, Bucher and Marder, 2004 above.

Differences from the original model: synapses are thresholded rather than graded.

This is in the neuroConstruct\_alt directory and currently runs in MOOSE buildQ branch.