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 on 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 7, 1345 - 1352, 2004](http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v7/n12/abs/nn1352.html) 1352 (2004)](http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v7/n12/abs/nn1352.html)

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](http://jn.physiology.org/content/90/6/3998.abstract?cited-by=yes&legid=jn;90/6/3998)

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 on MOOSE buildQ branch.