Chem. Senses 24: 497-508,
1999
© Oxford University Press 1999
A Kinetic Model of the Transient Phase in the Response of Olfactory Receptor Neurons
Division of Insect Biology, ESPM, 201 Wellman Hall, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720-3112, USA
Correspondence to be sent to: Wayne M. Getz, Division of Insect Biology, ESPM, 201 Wellman Hall, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720-3112, USA. e-mail:getz{at}nature.berkeley.edu
A model is presented that predicts the instantaneous spike rate of an olfactory receptor neuron (ORN) in response to the quality and concentration of an odor stimulus. The model accounts for the chemical kinetics of ligand–receptor binding and activation processes, and implicitly the initiation of second messenger cascades that lead to depolarization and/or hyperpolarization of the ORN membrane. Both of these polarizing processes are included in the most general form of the model, as well as a process that restores the voltage to its negative resting state. The spike rate is assumed to be linearly proportional to the level of voltage depolarization above a critical negative voltage level. The model includes the simplifying assumption that activation of bound ligand–receptor complexes by G-proteins and other enabling molecules follows a Monod function that has the ratio of enabling molecules to bound unactivated ligand–receptor complexes as its argument. Parameters are selected that provide an excellent fit of the model to previously published empirical data on the response of cockroach ORNs to pulsed 1-hexanol stimuli. The sensitivity of model output to various model parameters is investigated and changes to parameters are discussed that would improve the ability of ORNs to follow rapidly pulsed stimuli.
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