Dopaminergic cell bursting model (Kuznetsov et al 2006)

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Dopaminergic neurons of the midbrain fire spontaneously at rates <10/s and ordinarily will not exceed this range even when driven with somatic current injection. During spontaneous bursting of dopaminergic neurons in vivo, bursts related to reward expectation in behaving animals, and bursts generated by dendritic application of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) agonists, transient firing attains rates well above this range. We suggest a way such highfrequency firing may occur in response to dendritic NMDA receptor activation. We have extended the coupled oscillator model of the dopaminergic neuron, which represents the soma and dendrites as electrically coupled compartments with different natural spiking frequencies, by addition of dendritic AMPA (voltage-independent) or NMDA (voltage-dependent) synaptic conductance. Both soma and dendrites contain a simplified version of the calcium-potassium mechanism known to be the mechanism for slow spontaneous oscillation and background firing in dopaminergic cells. We show that because of its voltage dependence, NMDA receptor activation acts to amplify the effect on the soma of the high-frequency oscillation of the dendrites, which is normally too weak to exert a large influence on the overall oscillation frequency of the neuron.
Reference:
1 . Kuznetsov AS, Kopell NJ, Wilson CJ (2006) Transient high-frequency firing in a coupled-oscillator model of the mesencephalic dopaminergic neuron. J Neurophysiol 95:932-47 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Neuron or other electrically excitable cell;
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Channel(s): I K,Ca; I Calcium;
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Receptor(s): AMPA; NMDA;
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Simulation Environment: XPP;
Model Concept(s): Activity Patterns; Bursting; Oscillations; Action Potentials;
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This model is associated with the paper:

Kuznetsov AS, Kopell NJ, Wilson CJ.
Transient high-frequency firing in a coupled-oscillator model of the
mesencephalic dopaminergic neuron.
J Neurophysiol. 2006 Feb;95(2):932-47. Epub 2005 Oct 5.

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The soma trace from Fig 8A of the paper is reproduced.

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