Adding cilia with an added mechanism to a dendrite

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Adding cilia with an added mechanism to a dendrite

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I have a neuron model with soma, dendrite and cilium. The cilium has a mechanism added that gives variation of 8 variables with time.
I need to add one more cilium to this model. But, when I add 1 more cilium with the same mechanism, both the cilia show error in graphs of the variables after 0.5 seconds.
Is there any way I can add a cilium such that it does not error out in variation of the variables?

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Re: Adding cilia with an added mechanism to a dendrite

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You may be the only person on the planet who knows what you are asking. Let's see if we can make your question more understandable to others.
I have a neuron model with soma, dendrite and cilium.
Each of these is represented by a section?
The cilium has a mechanism added that gives variation of 8 variables with time.
What 8 variables, and what does it mean to say that this mechanism "gives variation" to them?
when I add 1 more cilium with the same mechanism, both the cilia show error in graphs of the variables
Forget about the graphs. Does NEURON generate error messages?
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Re: Adding cilia with an added mechanism to a dendrite

Post by bdut »

Sorry Ted for not being clear. Yes, each is a section. One section(cilium) has a mechanism attached to it. This mechanism has 8 differential equations that signify various components of signal transduction.
I have added one more section(cilium) to this model with the same mechanism. There are no error messages generated in NEURON upon execution.

I was able to figure out why the mechanism does not work, on addition of the section. It is because the mechanism execution time and access time are not synchronized.

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