Electrostimulation to reduce synaptic scaling driven progression of Alzheimers (Rowan et al. 2014)

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"... As cells die and synapses lose their drive, remaining cells suffer an initial decrease in activity. Neuronal homeostatic synaptic scaling then provides a feedback mechanism to restore activity. ... The scaling mechanism increases the firing rates of remaining cells in the network to compensate for decreases in network activity. However, this effect can itself become a pathology, ... Here, we present a mechanistic explanation of how directed brain stimulation might be expected to slow AD progression based on computational simulations in a 470-neuron biomimetic model of a neocortical column. ... "
Reference:
1 . Rowan MS, Neymotin SA, Lytton WW (2014) Electrostimulation to reduce synaptic scaling driven progression of Alzheimer's disease. Front Comput Neurosci 8:39 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Realistic Network;
Brain Region(s)/Organism: Neocortex;
Cell Type(s): Neocortex L5/6 pyramidal GLU cell; Neocortex L2/3 pyramidal GLU cell; Neocortex V1 interneuron basket PV GABA cell; Neocortex fast spiking (FS) interneuron; Neocortex spiny stellate cell; Neocortex spiking regular (RS) neuron; Neocortex spiking low threshold (LTS) neuron;
Channel(s):
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s): GabaA; AMPA; NMDA;
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s): Gaba; Glutamate;
Simulation Environment: NEURON; Python;
Model Concept(s): Long-term Synaptic Plasticity; Aging/Alzheimer`s; Deep brain stimulation; Homeostasis;
Implementer(s): Lytton, William [bill.lytton at downstate.edu]; Neymotin, Sam [Samuel.Neymotin at nki.rfmh.org]; Rowan, Mark [m.s.rowan at cs.bham.ac.uk];
Search NeuronDB for information about:  Neocortex L5/6 pyramidal GLU cell; Neocortex L2/3 pyramidal GLU cell; Neocortex V1 interneuron basket PV GABA cell; GabaA; AMPA; NMDA; Gaba; Glutamate;
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// $Id: labels.hoc,v 1.104 2012/04/12 01:44:03 samn Exp $

print "Loading labels.hoc..."

{load_file("declist.hoc")}
// keep track of version number for future changes
// eg if (label_hoc_vers>88) rcsopen("labels.hoc",88) // go back to 88
labels_hoc_vers=find_num("$Id: labels.hoc,v 1.104 2012/04/12 01:44:03 samn Exp $","1\\."," ")
objref NCv,CODEv,DELv
objref PRIDv,POIDv,PRv,POv,DISTv,WT0v,WT1v // mo(1) will assign these
{declare("ce",nil,"CTYP",new List(),"CPLA",new List(),"TPA",new List(),"nm",new List())}
{declare("STYP",new List(),"ncells",0,"ZTYP",new List(),"INCOL",new List())}
{declare("DEND",0,"SOMA",1,"AXON",2)} // compartment codes - only 3 for now

scrsz=50*1e3
double scr[scrsz]

//* utility functions
// plmin(val,var)
func plmin() { return $1 + $2*(2*u_rand() - 1) } 

//* cell types: 
// iex(), returns numeric index associated with a string or string object
func iex () { 
  if (argtype(1)==2) sprint(tstr,"x=%s",$s1) else sprint(tstr,"x=%s",$o1.s)
  execute(tstr) return x 
}
// ice(), returns whether cell is an inhib cell based on its name starting with I
func ice () { local x
  if (argtype(1)==2) return strm($s1,"^I")
  if (argtype(1)==0) x=$1 else if (argtype(1)==1) x=$o1.type 
  return strm(CTYP.o(x).s,"^I")
}
//* GetLyr - return layer of type
func GetLyr () { local x localobj st
  st=new String()
  if (argtype(1)==2) st.s=$s1 else if (argtype(1)==0) st.s=CTYP.o($1).s else {
    st.s=CTYP.o($o1.type).s }
  sscanf(st.s,"%*1s%d",&x)
  return x
}

proc printtype () { local i
  for (i=1;argtype(i)==0;i+=1) if ($i!=-1) printf("%s(%d) ",CTYP.o($i).s,$i)
  if (argtype(i)==2) printf("%s",$si) else print ""
}
proc celltype () { localobj st
  st=new String("\n")
  if (argtype(2)==2) st.s=$s2
  if (argtype(1)==0) printtype(ce.o($1).type,st.s) else printtype($o1.type,st.s) 
}

obfunc names2indices () { local x localobj lo,xo,st
  lo=new List() st=new String()
  split($s1,lo)
  for ltr(xo,lo,&x) { sprint(st.s,"%s=%d",xo.s,x) execute(st.s) }
  return lo
}

// at some point may want to divide up this list into cell type -- eg RS,IB and location
CTYP=names2indices("NU,SM,DP,SU,IN,TC,IRE,ITH,E6,I6,I6C,I6L,E5B,E5R,I5,I5L,E4,I4,I4L,E2,E2B,I2,I2Q,I2C,I2L,RS,IB,LTS,FS,ECA1,ICA1,ICA1L,EDG,IDG,IDGL,ECA3,ICA3,ICA3L,E3,I3,I3L,ES,IS,ISL,EM,IM,IML,EV,IV,IVL")
CTYPi=CTYP.count  // number of cell types
EXCIT=-1  // don't know how to fit these in best
INHIB=-2

// 1 cmp nrn, 2 cmp nrn, multi cmp nrn, intfire1, INTF, invlfire, nstim
for scase2(XO,"1-CMP","CMP1","2-CMP","CMP2","MULTI-CMP","MC","IntFire1","IF1","INTF","IF",\
          "INVLF","IFV","NStim","STM") { CPLA.append(XO)
  sprint(tstr,"%s=%d",XO.t,i1) execute(tstr) }
CPLAi=CPLA.count // count of cell templates

for scase2(XO,"REAL","RL","ARTC","AC","SOMA","SO","DEND","DN") {TPA.append(XO)}
TPAi=TPA.count

proc ae () { localobj xo
  STYP.remove_all
  for scase2(xo,"AMPA","AM","NMDA","NM","GABAA","GA","GABAB","GB",\
             "AMPA2","AM2","NMDA2","NM2","GABAA2","GA2","GABAB2","GB2",\
           "IClamp","IC","AMPA/NMDA","EX","GABAA/GABAB2","IX","Exp2Syn","E2Sy"){
    STYP.append(new String2(xo.t,xo.s)) // switch them around here
    sprint(tstr,"%s=%d",xo.t,i1)
    execute(tstr)
  }
  STYPi=STYP.count  // number of cell types
}
ae()

for scase(XO,"DG","CA3","CA1","SUB","PSUB","MEC","LEC") {
  sprint(tstr,"%s=%d",XO.s,i1) execute(tstr) ZTYP.append(new String(XO.s))
}

for scase2(XO,"RIGHT","RIT","INCOL","INC","LEFT","LFT") { INCOL.append(new String(XO.s))
  sprint(tstr,"%s=%d",XO.t,i1) execute(tstr) }
INCOLi=INCOL.count

//* IsLTS - return if type is LTS
func IsLTS () {
  return $1 == I2L || $1 == I4L || $1 == I5L || $1 == I6L || $1 == ISL || $1 == IML || $1 == IVL
}
//* IsBurst - return if type is intrinsically bursting
func IsBurst () {
  return $1 == E2B || $1 == E5B
}
//* IsFRB - return true if type is fast regular bursting
func IsFRB () {
  return $1 == E2B
}
//* IsRS - return true if type is regular spiking E cell
func IsRS () {
  return $1 == E2 || $1 == E4 || $1 == E5R || $1 == E6 || $1 == ES || $1 == EM || $1 == EV
}
//* IsFS - return true if type is fast spiking interneuron
func IsFS () {
  return $1==I2 || $1==I4 || $1==I5 || $1==I6 || $1==ICA3 || $1==IDG || $1==ICA1 || $1==IS || $1==IM || $1==IV
}
//* IsTHAL - return true if type is from thalamus
func IsTHAL () {
  return $1 == TC || $1 == IRE
}

func isartcell () { return sfunc.is_point_process($o1) }