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The Journal of Neuroscience, October 27, 2004, 24(43):9723-9733; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1721-04.2004
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Intrinsic Noise in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons: Experiment and Modeling
Kamran Diba, Henry A. Lester, andChristof Koch Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
Ion channels open and close stochastically. The fluctuation of these channels represents an intrinsic source of noise that affects the input-output properties of the neuron. We combined whole-cell measurements with biophysical modeling to characterize the intrinsic stochastic and electrical properties of single neurons as observed at the soma. We measured current and voltage noise in 18 d postembryonic cultured neurons from the rat hippocampus, at various subthreshold and near-threshold holding potentials in the presence of synaptic blockers. The observed current noise increased with depolarization, as ion channels were activated, and its spectrum demonstrated generalized 1/fbehavior. Exposure to TTX removed a significant contribution from Na+ channels to the noise spectrum, particularly at depolarized potentials, and the resulting spectrum was now dominated by a single Lorentzian (1/f2) component. By replacing the intracellular K+ with Cs+, we demonstrated that a major portion of the observed noise was attributable to K+ channels. We compared the measured power spectral densities to a 1-D cable model of channel fluctuations based on Markov kinetics. We found that a somatic compartment, in combination with a single equivalent cylinder, described the effective geometry from the viewpoint of the soma. Four distinct channel populations were distributed in the membrane and modeled as Lorentzian current noise sources. Using the NEURON simulation program, we summed up the contributions from the spatially distributed current noise sources and calculated the total voltage and current noise. Our quantitative model reproduces important voltage- and frequency-dependent features of the data, accounting for the 1/f behavior, as well as the effects of various blockers.
Key words: voltage noise; current noise; biophysical modeling; coding; neural computation; PSD
Received March 15, 2004; revised August 12, 2004; accepted August 13, 2004.
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