Revealing the distribution of transmembrane currents along the dendritic tree of a neuron from extracellular recordings

  1. Dorottya Cserpán
  2. Domokos Meszéna
  3. Lucia Wittner
  4. Kinga Tóth
  5. István Ulbert
  6. Zoltán Somogyvári
  7. Daniel K Wojcik  Is a corresponding author
  1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
  2. Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland

Abstract

Revealing the current source distribution along the neuronal membrane is a key step on the way to understanding neural computations, however, the experimental and theoretical tools to achieve sufficient spatiotemporal resolution for the estimation remain to be established. Here we address this problem using extracellularly recorded potentials with arbitrarily distributed electrodes for a neuron of known morphology. We use simulations of models with varying complexity to validate the proposed method and to give recommendations for experimental applications. The method is applied to in vitro data from rat hippocampus.

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  1. Dorottya Cserpán

    Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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  2. Domokos Meszéna

    Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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  3. Lucia Wittner

    Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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  4. Kinga Tóth

    Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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  5. István Ulbert

    Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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  6. Zoltán Somogyvári

    Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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  7. Daniel K Wojcik

    Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
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    d.wojcik@nencki.gov.pl
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Funding

Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego (Grant 2729/7.PR/2013/2)

  • Daniel K Wojcik

Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztesi és Innovacios Hivatal (Grant K 113147)

  • Zoltán Somogyvári

Nemzeti Agykutatasi Program (Grant KTIA NAP 13-1-2013-0001)

  • István Ulbert

Nemzeti Kutatasi, Fejilesztesi es Innovacios Hivatal (Grant NN 118902)

  • Zoltán Somogyvári

Nemzeti Agykutatasi Program (Grant KTIA-13-NAP-A-IV/1 2 3 4 6)

  • István Ulbert

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: The in vitro experiment was performed according to the EC Council Directive of November 24, 1986 (86/89/EEC) and all procedures were reviewed and approved by the local ethical committee and the Hungarian Central Government Office (license number: PEI/001/695-9/2015).

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© 2017, Cserpán et al.

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  1. Dorottya Cserpán
  2. Domokos Meszéna
  3. Lucia Wittner
  4. Kinga Tóth
  5. István Ulbert
  6. Zoltán Somogyvári
  7. Daniel K Wojcik
(2017)
Revealing the distribution of transmembrane currents along the dendritic tree of a neuron from extracellular recordings
eLife 6:e29384.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.29384

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