Research article
Octopamine increases the excitability of neurons in the snail feeding system by modulation of inward sodium current but not outward potassium currents
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* Corresponding author: Christopher JH Elliott cje2@york.ac.uk
1 Balaton Limnological Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 35, Tihany, H-8237 Hungary.
2 Department of Biology, University of York, PO Box 373, York, YO1 5YW, UK.
BMC Neuroscience 2005, 6:70 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-6-70
Published: 6 December 2005Additional files
Additional File 1:
Maple worksheet for the ionic currents in the B1 neuron, including graphs of the time constants and equilibrium proportion of gates open ionic currents against holding voltage.
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Additional File 2:
Maple commands for Additional File 1, for non-GUI interfaces.
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Additional File 3:
Maple output from Additional File 1, captured and converted to PDF.
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Additional File 4:
B1_vc.mws. Maple worksheet for voltage clamp simulation of the B1 neuron, in this case stepping from -50 to -10 mV. Maple users can set v0 and v to the holding and pulse potentials (in mV) and run the simulation. The Maple output includes a current / time plot.
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Additional File 5:
B1_vc.mpl. Maple commands from Additional File 3, for non-GUI interfaces.
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Additional File 6:
B1_time.mws. Maple worksheet for current clamp simulation with the current initially zero and then stepped to 1.6 nA. The output of this worksheet is shown in Appendix 2 and the plot in Fig. 9A.
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Additional File 7:
B1_time.mpl. Maple commands from Additional File 3, for non-GUI interfaces.
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