CA1 pyramidal neuron: synaptically-induced bAP predicts synapse location (Sterratt et al. 2012)

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This is an adaptation of Poirazi et al.'s (2003) CA1 model that is used to measure BAP-induced voltage and calcium signals in spines after simulated Schaffer collateral synapse stimulation. In the model, the peak calcium concentration is highly correlated with soma-synapse distance under a number of physiologically-realistic suprathreshold stimulation regimes and for a range of dendritic morphologies. There are also simulations demonstrating that peak calcium can be used to set up a synaptic democracy in a homeostatic manner, whereby synapses regulate their synaptic strength on the basis of the difference between peak calcium and a uniform target value.
Reference:
1 . Sterratt DC, Groen MR, Meredith RM, van Ooyen A (2012) Spine calcium transients induced by synaptically-evoked action potentials can predict synapse location and establish synaptic democracy. PLoS Comput Biol 8:e1002545 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell;
Brain Region(s)/Organism:
Cell Type(s): Hippocampus CA1 pyramidal GLU cell;
Channel(s): I Na,t; I L high threshold; I T low threshold; I A; I K; I M; I Mixed; I R; I_AHP;
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s): AMPA; NMDA;
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s):
Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Dendritic Action Potentials; Synaptic Plasticity;
Implementer(s): Sterratt, David ; Groen, Martine R [martine.groen at gmail.com];
Search NeuronDB for information about:  Hippocampus CA1 pyramidal GLU cell; AMPA; NMDA; I Na,t; I L high threshold; I T low threshold; I A; I K; I M; I Mixed; I R; I_AHP;
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if (name_declared("pkgversions") != 4 ) {  execute("strdef pkgversions") }
sprint(pkgversions,"%sRPlot = $Revision: 1.14 $, ",pkgversions)

load_file("FormatFile.hoc")
load_file("ObjectClass.hoc")
load_file("FileUtils.hoc")

begintemplate RPlot

public create_rfile, start_plot, add_graph, end_plot
public run
public plot
public clear
public set_mfrow
public set_width, set_height

objref xvec, yvec
objref xveclist, yveclist
objref rfile
strdef rfilename, tmpdir
objref li, lilist
strdef xlab, ylab, rxlab, rylab
strdef cmd
objref oc
strdef texlab, rlab, tmp
objref sf, fu

proc init() {
    sf = new StringFunctions()
    fu = new FileUtils()
    fu.tempdirname(tmpdir)
    
    if (numarg() == 0) { create_rfile() }
    if (numarg() == 1) { create_rfile($s1) }
    
    // Initialise variables and objects
    width=6
    height=4
    oc = new ObjectClass()
    xvec = new Vector()
    yvec = new Vector()
    li = new Vector()
}

proc create_rfile() {
    // Overide filename with argument
    fu.tempfilename(rfilename)
    if (numarg() == 1) { rfilename = $s1 }
    rfile = new FormatFile(rfilename,"R")
}

func getline() { local i 
    $o2.line_info($1, li)
    i = $o2.getline($1, xvec, yvec)
    return i
}

proc set_mfrow() {
    rfile.aopen()
    rfile.f.printf("par(mfrow=c(%g,%g))\n",$1,$2)
    rfile.close()
}

proc start_plot() {
    rfile.wopen()
    rfile.f.printf("postscript(file=\"%s\"",$s1)
    rfile.f.printf(", width=%g", width)  
    rfile.f.printf(", height=%g",height) 
    rfile.f.printf(", horizontal = FALSE, onefile = FALSE, paper = \"special\")\n")
    rfile.close()
}

// add_graph(Graph g, String filename, String xlabel, String ylabel) 
proc add_graph() { local limits_set
    limits_set = 0
    xlab = ""
    ylab = ""
    if (oc.object_is($o1,"TreePlot")) { 
        $o1.get_xlab(xlab)
        $o1.get_ylab(ylab)
    }
    if (numarg() >= 2) { xlab = $s2 }
    if (numarg() >= 3) { ylab = $s3 }
    
    xveclist = new List()
    yveclist = new List()
    lilist = new List()
    
    for ( i=-1; ( i = getline(i, $o1)) != -1 ; ) {
        // xvec and yvec contain the line with Graph internal index i.
        // and can be associated with the sequential index j.
        xveclist.append(xvec.c)
        yveclist.append(yvec.cl)
        lilist.append(li.c)
    }
    vi = $o1.view_info()
    if (vi != -1) {
        limits_set = 1
        xmin = $o1.view_info(vi,5)
        xmax = $o1.view_info(vi,6)
        ymin = $o1.view_info(vi,7)
        ymax = $o1.view_info(vi,8)
    }
    if (oc.object_is($o1,"TreePlot")) { 
        limits_set = 1
        xmin = $o1.get_limit(1)
        xmax = $o1.get_limit(2)
        ymin = $o1.get_limit(3)
        ymax = $o1.get_limit(4)
    }
    textoRtext(xlab, rxlab)
    textoRtext(ylab, rylab)
    
    rfile.aopen()
    rfile.print_VectorList("xvec",xveclist)
    rfile.print_VectorList("yvec",yveclist)
    rfile.print_VectorList("li",lilist)

    if (limits_set) {
        rfile.f.printf("plot(NA,NA,xlim=c(%g,%g),ylim=c(%g,%g),xlab=%s,ylab=%s)\n",xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax,rxlab,rylab) 
    } else {
        rfile.printf("plot(NA,NA,")
        rfile.printf("xlim=c(min(sapply(xvec,min)),max(sapply(xvec,max))),                            ylim=c(min(sapply(yvec,min)),max(sapply(yvec,max))),")
        rfile.f.printf("xlab=%s,ylab=%s)\n",rxlab,rylab)
    }
    rfile.printf("\
    for (i in 1:length(xvec)) {\
        lines(xvec[[i]],yvec[[i]],col=li[[i]][1])\
    }\n")
    if (oc.object_is($o1,"TreePlot")) {
        for ( i=-1; ( i = $o1.getmarks(i, xvec, yvec)) != -1 ; ) {
            rfile.printvec("xvec",xvec)
            rfile.printvec("yvec",yvec)
            rfile.printf("points(xvec,yvec)\n")
        }
    }
    rfile.close()
}

proc end_plot() {
    rfile.aopen()
    rfile.printf("dev.off()\n")
    rfile.close()
}

proc run() {
    fu.basename(rfilename,tmp)
    sprint(cmd,"R --vanilla CMD BATCH %s.R %s/%s.Rout", rfilename,tmpdir,tmp)
    system(cmd)
}

// plot(Graph g, String name) 
proc plot() {
    clear()
    start_plot($s2)
    if (numarg() == 2) { add_graph($o1) }
    if (numarg() == 3) { add_graph($o1, $s3) }
    if (numarg() == 4) { add_graph($o1, $s3, $s4) }
    end_plot()
    run()
}

proc clear() {
    rfile.unlink()
}

proc textoRtext() {
    texlab = $s1
    sprint(texlab,"%s ",texlab) // Hack to fix bug with tex symbol at end of string
    rlab = "expression(paste("
    while (( ind = sf.substr(texlab,"\\")) != -1) {
        // print texlab, "]"
        // print rlab, "]"
        sf.head(texlab,"\\\\",tmp) 
        if (sf.len(tmp)) {
            sprint(rlab,"%s\"%s\",",rlab,tmp)
        }
        sf.right(texlab,ind+1)               // Get rid of backslash with +1
        ind = sf.substr(texlab," ")
        if (ind==0) {
            sf.right(texlab,ind)      // Keep space straight after backslash
            //        print "space"
            continue
        }
        ind = sf.head(texlab,"[ \\\\]",tmp) 
        sprint(rlab,"%s%s,",rlab,tmp)
        if (sf.substr(texlab,"\\") == ind) { 
            sf.right(texlab,ind)         // backslash; don't remove
        } else {
            sf.right(texlab,ind+1)            // space; remove
        }
    }
    sprint(rlab,"%s\"%s\"))",rlab,texlab)
    $s2 = rlab
}

proc set_width() { width = $1 }
proc set_height() { height = $1 }
    

endtemplate RPlot