Journal
NEURAL NETWORKS
Volume 98, Issue -, Pages 42-50Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2017.10.008
Keywords
Up and down states; Spontaneous firing; Intrinsic sodium dynamics; Excitation block
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11232005, 11702096]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [222201714020]
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Periodic up and down transitions of membrane potentials are considered to be a significant spontaneous activity. These kinds of oscillations always accompany with some spontaneous firing in up state. Our previous theoretical studies mainly looked at the subthreshold up and down transitions and characteristics of up and down dynamics. In this paper, we focus on suprathreshold spontaneous firing of up and down transitions based on improved network model and its stimulations. The simulated results indicate that fast sodium current is critical to the generation of spontaneous neural firing. While persistent sodium current plays a part in spontaneous fluctuation. Both intrinsic fast and persistent sodium dynamics influence spontaneous firing rate and synchronous activity in up and down behavior. Meanwhile, blocking excitatory synaptic transmission decreases neural firing and reveals spontaneous firing. These simulated results are basically in accordance with experimental results. Through the observation and analysis of the findings, we prove the validity of the model so we can further adopt this model to study other properties and characteristics of the network, laying the foundation for further work on cortex activity. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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