Effects of increasing CREB on storage and recall processes in a CA1 network (Bianchi et al. 2014)

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Several recent results suggest that boosting the CREB pathway improves hippocampal-dependent memory in healthy rodents and restores this type of memory in an AD mouse model. However, not much is known about how CREB-dependent neuronal alterations in synaptic strength, excitability and LTP can boost memory formation in the complex architecture of a neuronal network. Using a model of a CA1 microcircuit, we investigate whether hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neuron properties altered by increasing CREB activity may contribute to improve memory storage and recall. With a set of patterns presented to a network, we find that the pattern recall quality under AD-like conditions is significantly better when boosting CREB function with respect to control. The results are robust and consistent upon increasing the synaptic damage expected by AD progression, supporting the idea that the use of CREB-based therapies could provide a new approach to treat AD.
Reference:
1 . Bianchi D, De Michele P, Marchetti C, Tirozzi B, Cuomo S, Marie H, Migliore M (2014) Effects of increasing CREB-dependent transcription on the storage and recall processes in a hippocampal CA1 microcircuit. Hippocampus 24:165-77 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Realistic Network;
Brain Region(s)/Organism:
Cell Type(s): Hippocampus CA1 pyramidal GLU cell; Hippocampus CA1 interneuron oriens alveus GABA cell; Hippocampus CA1 basket cell;
Channel(s): I Na,t; I A; I K; I M; I h; I K,Ca; I Calcium; I_AHP; I Cl, leak; Ca pump;
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s): GabaA; GabaB; AMPA; NMDA;
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s): Gaba; Glutamate;
Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): STDP; Aging/Alzheimer`s; Depolarization block; Storage/recall; CREB;
Implementer(s): Bianchi, Daniela [danielabianchi12 -at- gmail.com]; De Michele, Pasquale [pasquale.demichele at unina.it];
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Results
patternrecall_all.m
patternrecall_cicle_ort.m
Vtraces_all.m
                            
clear all 
close all

NCELL =235     % number of cells (neurons)
NPCELL = 100; % number of PC (output) cells
SPATT = 20;   % number of active cells per pattern
%init=50     %for serial version
init=100

MOLT_TH=100;  
MOLT_TH1=10;   % =10 for pure recall, =100 for storage 
%MOLT_TH=2;   % for serial version
%MOLT_TH1=2;   % for serial version
RTIME = init+(250*MOLT_TH1);    % run time (msecs)
% ----- parallel version
%for storage phase
STIME = init+82*250; 
ETIME = STIME+1100;
%for pure recall
STIME = init+250; 
ETIME = RTIME;
%--------------------
% ----- serial version
%STIME = init+250; 
%ETIME = STIME+1*125;
%---------------------
STDPP= 0.60;
STDPD=0.80;
SETPATT=1;

stdpp=num2str(STDPP, '%.2f');
stdpd=num2str(STDPD,'%.2f');
setp=num2str(SETPATT,'%d');
spat=num2str(SPATT,'%d');
molt_theta=num2str(MOLT_TH);
molt_theta1=num2str(MOLT_TH1); 
creb='_CREB';  % write '_CREB' for CREB case
suffix='_RECALL';  % write '_RECALL' for pure recall
lensuf=length(suffix);
fold='Results/bpattrun2/';   % directory for storage phase
fold='Results/bpattrun/';      % directory for pure recall

 
NSTORE=1;
npatt=num2str(NSTORE)
nstore=num2str(NSTORE);

coeff=struct('metr',[]);

 for j=6:6
     inp=num2str(j); %INPR variable
 for SETPATT=1:1
     setp=num2str(SETPATT,'%d');   
     dir=strcat('../Weights/setpatt',setp,'/');
     cd(dir)
   % namefold=strcat(fold,'MT_',molt_theta,'_NS_',npatt,'_SET_',setp,'_INPR_',inp,suffix,creb) % for serial version
   namefold=strcat(fold,'MT_',molt_theta,'_NS_',npatt,'_SPATT_',spat,'_STDPP_',stdpp,'_STDPD_',stdpd,'_SET_',setp,'_INPR_',inp,suffix,creb);
     dir2=strcat('../../',namefold)
   
    FPA = 'pattsN'; 
    FPATT=strcat(FPA,'100S',spat,'P',npatt,'.dat')
    patts = load(FPATT);   % load stored patterns
    cd(dir2)
     
 r=0;
      
for NPATT =1:1:NSTORE  % number of 
    if (NPATT==0) NPATT=1; end
     npat=num2str(NPATT)
   
     nomefile=strcat('Correlation_',npat,suffix,'.dat')
     fid = fopen(nomefile,'w');
     fprintf(fid,'quality0\t ntheta0\t quality\n')
     
     r=r+1;
          
     
    for kk=1: NPATT
        cpat=num2str(kk);   % kk CPATT
    if (lensuf==0)
        FSTEM = strcat('HAM_P0R',cpat,'_spt');   % spikes file
    else
    FSTEM = strcat('HAM_P',npat,'R',cpat,'_spt',suffix);   % spikes file
    end
    FSPIKE = [FSTEM '.dat'];   % spikes file
    cue = patts(:,kk);   % extract cue pattern
    cue2=cue;

    
    sp = load(FSPIKE);  % load spike times
    st = sp(:,1);       % extract times
    cell = sp(:,2);     % extract corresponding cell indices
    % extract PC spiking
    stp = st(cell < NPCELL);
    cellp = cell(cell < NPCELL);

    % Analyse spiking over time and compare with cue
    DT = 1; % sliding time
    TW = 5;    % width of sliding time window
    %TW = 10;    % width of sliding time window
    
    jj=[];
    
   for j=1:MOLT_TH1-1
       k=2*j-2;
       ii=[(k*125):((k+1)*125)-1];
       jj=[jj,ii];
   end
    jj=jj+init+250;
    
    NW = length(jj);   % number of time windows
    mc = mean(cue); % mean cue activity
    nc = zeros(NW,1);
    metr = zeros(NW,1);
    an = zeros(NW,1);
    
    tti = 0:DT:RTIME-TW;
    Nti = length(tti);   
    metr1 = zeros(Nti,1);    
       
    for i=1:NW
        
        rp = cellp( stp>=jj(i) & stp<jj(i)+TW ); % active cells in sliding window
        nc(i) = length(rp);    % number of active cells in window
        p = zeros(NPCELL,1);
        p(rp+1,1) = 1;  % recalled pattern
        mp = mean(p);   % mean pattern activity
        if mp == 0
            metr(i) = 0;
         else
            
           metr(i) = dot(p,cue)/sqrt(sum(p)*sum(cue));
               
        end;  
        
  
    end
    
    % Generate figure
    figure;
    ms=8;
    lw=2;
    ti = 1:DT:NW+STIME;
    ti=ti';
   
    subplot(3,1,1);
    plot(sp(:,1), sp(:,2), 'k.', 'markersize', ms);   % raster plot of Sep, EC & CA3 spiking
    title('Input spikes');
    ylabel('Cell no');
    axis([STIME ETIME NPCELL+4 NPCELL+4+130]);

    subplot(3,1,2);
    hold on;
    plot(sp(:,1), sp(:,2), 'k.', 'markersize', ms);   % raster plot of PC spiking
    title('Pyramidal cell spikes');
    ylabel('Cell no.');
    axis([STIME ETIME 0 NPCELL-1]);
    
    theta0(kk)=0;
    for rr=1:MOLT_TH1-1
        xx=metr(((rr-1)*125+1):(rr*125));
        metr1((init+250+(rr-1)*250+1):(init+250+(rr-1)*250+125))=xx;
        if (mean(xx)==0)
            theta0(kk)=theta0(kk)+1;
            metr2(rr)=0;
        else
            xxx=xx(xx>0);
            metr2(rr)=mean(xxx);
        end
    end
    
        
    subplot(3,1,3);
    hold on;
    plot(tti', metr1, 'k-', 'LineWidth', lw); % recall quality
    title('Recall quality');
    ylabel('Quality');
    xlabel('Time (msecs)');
    axis([STIME ETIME 0 1.02]);


    name1=strcat(FSTEM,'1.jpg');
    saveas(gcf,name1)
    
    
    Mmetr2(kk)=mean(metr2);
    if( sum(metr2)==0) 
        Mco(kk)=0;
        Mmetr3(kk)=0; 
    else
    Mmetr3(kk)=mean(metr2(metr2>0)); 
    end
    
    fprintf(fid,'%.4f \t %d \t %.4f\n', Mmetr2(kk),theta0(kk),Mmetr3(kk))
    
    coeff(j,r,kk).metr=metr2;
    
    clear metr metr2    
    close all  
      
    end  % for kk
   
    MMmetr2=mean(Mmetr2);
    
    if( sum(Mmetr3)==0) 
        MMmetr3=0;
    else
      MMmetr3=mean(Mmetr3);
    end
   Mtheta0=mean(theta0);
    
    fprintf(fid,'\n %.4f \t %d \t %.4f\n',MMmetr2,Mtheta0,MMmetr3)
   
    fclose(fid)
    
    clear Mmetr Mmetr2 Mmetr3 Mtheta0 MMmetr2  MMmetr3 theta0
   
end
 end
 end
 
 name=strcat('Recall',creb,'.mat')
 save(name,'coeff'); 

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