For this example, we will borrow the equations for the HH sodium current because they are familiar and because we can easily check our new current against NEURON's built-in HH mechanism.
Here's the outline of how we'll proceed :
Step 1. Bring up a Channel Builder
Step 2. Specify the channel's basic properties
Step 3. Specify "channel gating," i.e. :
specify the states that control channel gating
specify transitions between kinetic scheme states
specify how voltage and ligands affect states and transitions
Step 4. Test the channel
Go back to the main page ("Using the Channel Builder") to work on a different tutorial.
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