h-Type Membrane Current Shapes the Local Field Potential from Populations of Pyramidal Neurons
| Autor: | Gaute T. Einevoll, Michiel W. H. Remme, Torbjørn V. Ness |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
genetic structures Population Models Neurological Action Potentials Local field potential Signal Ion Channels 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Animals Humans education Ion channel Research Articles Physics Cerebral Cortex education.field_of_study Subthreshold conduction General Neuroscience musculoskeletal neural and ocular physiology Pyramidal Cells food and beverages Cortex (botany) 030104 developmental biology medicine.anatomical_structure nervous system Soma Neuron Neuroscience 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Neuroscience |
| ISSN: | 0270-6474 |
| Popis: | In cortex, the local field potential (LFP) is thought to mainly stem from correlated synaptic input to populations of geometrically aligned neurons. Computer models of single cortical pyramidal neurons showed that subthreshold voltage-dependent membrane conductances can also shape the LFP signal, in particular the hyperpolarization-activated cation current (I(h); h-type). This ion channel is prominent in various types of pyramidal neurons, typically showing an increasing density gradient along the apical dendrites. Here, we investigate how I(h) affects the LFP generated by a model of a population of cortical pyramidal neurons. We find that the LFP from populations of neurons that receive uncorrelated synaptic input can be well predicted by the LFP from single neurons. In this case, when input impinges on the distal dendrites, where most h-type channels are located, a strong resonance in the LFP was measured near the soma, whereas the opposite configuration does not reveal an I(h) contribution to the LFP. Introducing correlations in the synaptic inputs to the pyramidal cells strongly amplifies the LFP, while maintaining the differential effects of I(h) for distal dendritic versus perisomatic input. Previous theoretical work showed that input correlations do not amplify LFP power when neurons receive synaptic input uniformly across the cell. We find that this crucially depends on the membrane conductance distribution: the asymmetric distribution of I(h) results in a strong amplification of the LFP when synaptic inputs to the cell population are correlated. In conclusion, we find that the h-type current is particularly suited to shape the LFP signal in cortical populations. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The local field potential (LFP), the low-frequency part of extracellular potentials recorded in neural tissue, is often used for probing neural circuit activity. While the cortical LFP is thought to mainly reflect synaptic inputs onto pyramidal neurons, little is known about the role of subthreshold active conductances in shaping the LFP. By means of biophysical modeling we obtain a comprehensive, qualitative understanding of how LFPs generated by populations of cortical pyramidal neurons depend on active subthreshold currents, and identify the key importance of the h-type channel. Our results show that LFPs can give information about the active properties of neurons and that preferred frequencies in the LFP can result from those cellular properties instead of, for example, network dynamics. |
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