Experimentally constrained network model of hippocampal fast-firing parvalbumin-positive interneurons
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Abstract
Our PV+ interneurons are represented with an Izhikevich-type model [2], and involve parameter values that are designed to approximate the cell’ si ntrinsic properties. To determine these parameters, spike characteristics and passive properties were extracted from wholecell patch clamp recordings of PV+ interneurons in the CA1 region of an intact hippocampal preparation in vitro. Our network model is composed of these individual PV+ cell models, and the network size, architecture, and synaptic properties are chosen to be consistent with those found in the literature. Recordings during emergent network oscillations [3] provided us with information about realistic firing rates and synaptic activity of PV+ interneurons. These firing rates, used in combination with the cell’s intrinsic frequency-current profile, provided physiological constraints on the amount of synaptic current the PV+ cells receive during these spontaneous network oscillations. Under voltage clamp, excitatory post-synaptic current peaks are used in our model as an upper bound on the range of synaptic input. We used this network model to determine whether coherent rhythms could be produced within experimental constraints. Our model produced intrinsic properties and spiking behaviors which approximated the experimentally determined membrane capacitance, resting membrane potential, threshold potential, spike width, spike peak potential, peak after-hyperpolarizing potential, and amount of adaptation. Model parameters were determined such that the slope of the model’s frequency-current profile and the model rheobase current were within the range of our experimental data. As such, we have produced a network model of PV+ interneurons that has direct links to cellular characteristics with model parameters that have clear biological interpretations. In addition, network simulations of our PV+ interneuron model produced coherent gamma output. Since the firing properties and network architecture of PV+ interneurons puts them in an ideal position to influence network activity, this cell type will likely remain a focus of experimentalists and modelers alike. A model such as ours, with clear links to biology, may be used as a platform to investigate the role of these fast-firing PV+ interneurons in network oscillations and behaviour.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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