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Appendix В
Ion Channel Kinetics
The following tables contain all the information pertaining to the ion channels and
gating variable kinetics used in this thesis. Table B.l is for the uniform channel model,
which uses the Hodgkin-Huxley squid giant axon parameters. Table B.2 is for the
non-uniform channel model, whose non-uniformity comes from an A-type K+ current
following Connor-Stevens kinetics and consistent with the graded channel distribution
of (Hoffman et al., 1997). In order to simulate cells with weakly excitable dendrites,
the model in Table B.3 is based on that of (Migliore et al., 1999) for 7<vα, Iχm, Iκk∙,
and ∕∣eak, though there have been some modifications to the time constants for Zprox
and Zdist, which was done to obtain a good fit to the original functions without the
need for defining them piecewise.