Biology – Quantitative Biology – Neurons and Cognition
Scientific paper
2009-12-16
J. Biol. Phys. 35(4) (2009) 383-411
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Neurons and Cognition
42 pages, 16 figures, 1 table. Figure filenames mirror figure order in the paper. Ending "S" in figure filenames stands for "S
Scientific paper
10.1007/s10867-009-9155-y
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in neuron-glia communication. This interest stems from the realization that glia participates in cognitive functions and information processing and is involved in many brain disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. An important process in neuron-glia communications is astrocyte encoding of synaptic information transfer: the modulation of intracellular calcium dynamics in astrocytes in response to synaptic activity. Here, we derive and investigate a concise mathematical model for glutamate-induced astrocytic intracellular Ca2+ dynamics that captures the essential biochemical features of the regulatory pathway of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3). Starting from the well-known two-state Li-Rinzel model for calcium-induced-calcium release, we incorporate the regulation of the IP3 production and phosphorylation. Doing so we extended it to a three-state model (referred as the G-ChI model), that could account for Ca2+ oscillations triggered by endogenous IP3 metabolism as well as by IP3 production by external glutamate signals. Compared to previous similar models, our three-state models include a more realistic description of the IP3 production and degradation pathways, lumping together their essential nonlinearities within a concise formulation. Using bifurcation analysis and time simulations, we demonstrate the existence of new putative dynamical features. The cross-couplings between IP3 and Ca2+ pathways endows the system with self-consistent oscillator properties and favor mixed frequency-amplitude encoding modes over pure amplitude modulation ones. These and additional results of our model are in general agreement with available experimental data and may have important implications on the role of astrocytes in the synaptic transfer of information.
Ben-Jacob Eshel
Berry Hugues
Goldberg Mati
Pitta` Maurizio de
Volman Vladislav
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