Neuromodulators constrain the activity of neurons and neuronal networks by restricting their parameter space

神经调节器通过限制神经元和神经元网络的参数空间来限制其活动

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    2320895
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 75万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2024
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2024-03-01 至 2028-02-29
  • 项目状态:
    未结题

项目摘要

Neurons are organized into networks and circuits. When neurons and neuronal circuits are perturbed by trauma, growth, or disease, the activity of neurons and the release of so-called neuromodulators is affected. However, after a delay following the perturbation, activity often is restored thanks to mechanisms triggered by changes in neural activity and/or effects of the neuromodulators. These mechanisms are not well understood, especially not the role and mechanisms of the neuromodulators. In this project, the role that neuromodulators play in determining the constellations of proteins expressed by individual neurons will be studied, with an emphasis on proteins that constitute channels in the cell membrane of neurons and that affect neural activity. The objective is to identify the mechanisms activated after severe perturbation of the neural network that lead to the recovery of the neurons’ normal activity. For this purpose, a small neural network from crabs is used because this networks’ neuronal components are few, very well known, and relatively accessible experimentally. Students of all levels (from high school to doctoral student) and diverse backgrounds will participate in a collaborative and highly interactive lab environment. Neuromodulation through metabotropic receptor action is commonly thought to rapidly and transiently modify and expand the output repertoire of neurons and neuronal networks by regulating ionic currents, synapses, and transporters. In this project, the hypothesis is examined that, over long time scales (≥ hours), the opposite may happen: neuromodulators constrain neurons and networks into restricted regions in the parameter space that determines their activity, and this effect may hinder the neurons’ plasticity and ability to recover from perturbations. By reducing the region of parameter space that neurons and networks can inhabit, neuromodulators are thought to sculpt patterns of activity required by the system to serve specific functions, analogous to what happens during development. However, this hypothesized sculpting role of neuromodulators may also limit the possible neural activity patterns needed to respond adaptively to insults, damage, or other persistent perturbations. Understanding the various mechanisms that a network can use to maintain its functional activity, or restore it after it has been perturbed, will broaden our understanding of how networks can be resilient. Here the simple, accessible and well-characterized pyloric network of the crab is used to reach a mechanistic understanding of the role of neuromodulators in defining the neuronal elements (neurons, ionic currents) that specify adult patterns of activity, and control their functional plasticity over large time scales. By using an already well-defined system and computational approaches, a relatively simple path to understanding the role of neuromodulators will be taken, which can then be applied and tested in more complex systems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
神经元被组织成网络和电路。当神经元和神经元回路受到创伤、生长或疾病的干扰时,神经元的活动和所谓的神经调质的释放就会受到影响。 然而,在扰动后的延迟之后,由于神经活动和/或神经调质的作用的变化触发的机制,活动通常会恢复。 这些机制还没有得到很好的理解,尤其是神经调质的作用和机制。在本项目中,将研究神经调质在确定单个神经元表达的蛋白质星座中所起的作用,重点是构成神经元细胞膜通道并影响神经活动的蛋白质。 其目的是确定神经网络严重扰动后激活的机制,导致神经元正常活动的恢复。为此,使用来自螃蟹的小型神经网络,因为该网络的神经元组件很少,非常知名,并且相对容易通过实验获得。所有级别的学生(从高中到博士生)和不同的背景将参与一个协作和高度互动的实验室环境。通过代谢型受体作用的神经调节通常被认为是通过调节离子电流、突触和转运蛋白来快速且瞬时地修改和扩展神经元和神经元网络的输出库。在这个项目中,研究假设,在长时间尺度上(≥小时),相反的情况可能发生:神经调节剂将神经元和网络限制在决定其活动的参数空间中的有限区域,这种效应可能会阻碍神经元的可塑性和从扰动中恢复的能力。通过减少神经元和网络可以占据的参数空间区域,神经调节剂被认为可以塑造系统所需的活动模式,以提供特定的功能,类似于发育过程中发生的情况。然而,这种假设的神经调质的塑造作用也可能限制可能的神经活动模式,需要适应性地响应侮辱,损害,或其他持续的扰动。了解网络可以用来维持其功能活动或在受到干扰后恢复其功能活动的各种机制,将拓宽我们对网络如何具有弹性的理解。在这里,简单的,可访问的和良好的特点幽门网络的螃蟹是用来达到一个机械的理解神经调节剂的作用,在定义的神经元元素(神经元,离子电流),指定成人的活动模式,并控制其功能可塑性在大的时间尺度。通过使用一个已经定义良好的系统和计算方法,将采取一个相对简单的路径来理解神经调节剂的作用,然后可以在更复杂的系统中应用和测试。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命,并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

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Jorge Golowasch其他文献

Approximating the phase response curves of square wave bursting neurons
  • DOI:
    10.1186/1471-2202-9-s1-p24
  • 发表时间:
    2008-07-11
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    2.300
  • 作者:
    Ikemefuna Agbanusi;Alborz Yarahmadi;Amitabha Bose;Jorge Golowasch;Farzan Nadim
  • 通讯作者:
    Farzan Nadim

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{{ truncateString('Jorge Golowasch', 18)}}的其他基金

The Role of Neuronal Ionic Current Correlations and Level Sets in Network Activity
神经元离子电流相关性和水平集在网络活动中的作用
  • 批准号:
    1715808
  • 财政年份:
    2017
  • 资助金额:
    $ 75万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant

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