Dentate gyrus network model pattern separation and granule cell scaling in epilepsy (Yim et al 2015)

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The dentate gyrus (DG) is thought to enable efficient hippocampal memory acquisition via pattern separation. With patterns defined as spatiotemporally distributed action potential sequences, the principal DG output neurons (granule cells, GCs), presumably sparsen and separate similar input patterns from the perforant path (PP). In electrophysiological experiments, we have demonstrated that during temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), GCs downscale their excitability by transcriptional upregulation of ‘leak’ channels. Here we studied whether this cell type-specific intrinsic plasticity is in a position to homeostatically adjust DG network function. We modified an established conductance-based computer model of the DG network such that it realizes a spatiotemporal pattern separation task, and quantified its performance with and without the experimentally constrained leaky GC phenotype. ...
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1 . Yim MY, Hanuschkin A, Wolfart J (2015) Intrinsic rescaling of granule cells restores pattern separation ability of a dentate gyrus network model during epileptic hyperexcitability. Hippocampus 25:297-308 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Realistic Network; Neuron or other electrically excitable cell;
Brain Region(s)/Organism: Dentate gyrus;
Cell Type(s): Dentate gyrus granule GLU cell; Dentate gyrus mossy cell; Dentate gyrus basket cell; Dentate gyrus hilar cell; Dentate gyrus MOPP cell;
Channel(s): I Chloride; I K,leak; I Cl, leak; Kir; Kir2 leak;
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s): GabaA; AMPA;
Gene(s): IRK; Kir2.1 KCNJ2; Kir2.2 KCNJ12; Kir2.3 KCNJ4; Kir2.4 KCNJ14;
Transmitter(s): Gaba; Glutamate;
Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Activity Patterns; Spatio-temporal Activity Patterns; Intrinsic plasticity; Pathophysiology; Epilepsy; Homeostasis; Pattern Separation;
Implementer(s): Yim, Man Yi [manyi.yim at googlemail.com]; Hanuschkin, Alexander ; Wolfart, Jakob ;
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TITLE CaL.mod L-type Cav channel
COMMENT

Mod file by A. Hanuschkin <AH, 2011> for:
Yim MY, Hanuschkin A, Wolfart J (2015) Hippocampus 25:297-308.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.22373/abstract

Mod File history:
- fitted H-H parameter N-Ca from Jaffe DB, Ross WN, Lisman JE,  Lasser-Ross N, Miyakawa H, Johnston D (1994) Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol. 71 no. 3, 1065-1077
- Ca ion & L/T/N-Ca channels model of  Aradi I, Holmes WR (1999) J Comput Neurosci 6:215-35
- checked and adapted by Hanuschkin in 2011
- Note that eCa is calculated during simulation by ccanl.mod. ecat, ecal values set in Santhakumar are not used in our model scripts.
 
ENDCOMMENT
 
UNITS {
        (mA) =		(milliamp)
        (mV) =		(millivolt)
        (uF) = 		(microfarad)
	(molar) = 	(1/liter)
	(nA) = 		(nanoamp)
	(mM) = 		(millimolar)
	(um) = 		(micron)
	FARADAY = 96520 (coul)
	R = 8.3134	(joule/degC)
}
 
NEURON { 
SUFFIX lca
USEION lca READ elca WRITE ilca VALENCE 2 
RANGE  glca
RANGE glcabar
RANGE einf, etau, ilca
}
 
INDEPENDENT {t FROM 0 TO 100 WITH 100 (ms)}
 
PARAMETER {
        v (mV) 
        celsius = 6.3 (degC)
        dt (ms) 
	glcabar (mho/cm2)
}
 
STATE {
	e
}
 
ASSIGNED {
	glca (mho/cm2)
	ilca (mA/cm2)
	elca (mV)

	einf 
	etau (ms) 
	eexp      
} 

BREAKPOINT {
	SOLVE states
        glca = glcabar*e*e
	ilca = glca*(v-elca)
}
 
UNITSOFF
 
INITIAL {
	trates(v)
	e = einf
}

PROCEDURE states() {	:Computes state variables e 
        trates(v)	:      at the current v and dt.
	e = e + eexp*(einf-e)
        VERBATIM
        return 0;
        ENDVERBATIM
}
 
LOCAL q10

PROCEDURE rates(v) {  :Computes rate and other constants at current v.
                      :Call once from HOC to initialize inf at resting v.
        LOCAL  alpha, beta, sum
        q10 = 3^((celsius - 6.3)/10) : q10=1 for 6.3 celcius
                :"e" LCa activation system
        alpha = -15.69*vtrap(v-81.5,-10)	
	beta = 0.29*exp(-v/10.86)	
	sum = alpha+beta        
	etau = 1/sum      einf = alpha/sum
                :no LCa inactivation system
}
 
PROCEDURE trates(v) {  :Computes rate and other constants at current v.
                      :Call once from HOC to initialize inf at resting v.
	LOCAL tinc
        TABLE  einf, eexp, etau
	DEPEND dt, celsius FROM -100 TO 100 WITH 200
                           
	rates(v)	: not consistently executed from here if usetable_hh == 1
		: so don't expect the tau values to be tracking along with
		: the inf values in hoc

	tinc = -dt * q10
	eexp = 1 - exp(tinc/etau)
}
 
FUNCTION vtrap(x,y) {  :Traps for 0 in denominator of rate eqns.
        if (fabs(x/y) < 1e-6) {
                vtrap = y*(1 - x/y/2)
        }else{  
                vtrap = x/(exp(x/y) - 1)
        }
}
 
UNITSON