Hadipour-Niktarash Arash
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Laboratory for Computational Motor Control, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Ave, 416, Traylor Building, Baltimore, MD 21205-2195, USA.
J Comput Neurosci. 2006 Jun;20(3):299-320. doi: 10.1007/s10827-006-6673-5. Epub 2006 Apr 22.
In Parkinson's disease, neurons of the internal segment of the globus pallidus (GPi) display the low-frequency tremor-related oscillations. These oscillatory activities are transmitted to the thalamic relay nuclei. Computer models of the interacting thalamocortical (TC) and thalamic reticular (RE) neurons were used to explore how the TC-RE network processes the low-frequency oscillations of the GPi neurons. The simulation results show that, by an interaction between the TC and RE neurons, the TC-RE network transforms a low-frequency oscillatory activity of the GPi neurons to a higher frequency of oscillatory activity of the TC neurons (the superharmonic frequency transformation). In addition to the interaction between the TC and RE neurons, the low-threshold calcium current in the RE and TC neurons and the hyperpolarization-activated cation current (I (h)) in the TC neurons have significant roles in the superharmonic frequency transformation property of the TC-RE network. The external globus pallidus (GPe) oscillatory activity, which is directly transmitted to the RE nucleus also displays a significant modulatory effect on the superharmonic frequency transformation property of the TC-RE network.
在帕金森病中,苍白球内侧部(GPi)的神经元表现出与低频震颤相关的振荡。这些振荡活动会传递至丘脑中继核。利用丘脑皮质(TC)神经元与丘脑网状(RE)神经元相互作用的计算机模型,来探究TC-RE网络如何处理GPi神经元的低频振荡。模拟结果表明,通过TC神经元与RE神经元之间的相互作用,TC-RE网络将GPi神经元的低频振荡活动转换为TC神经元更高频率的振荡活动(超谐波频率转换)。除了TC神经元与RE神经元之间的相互作用外,RE神经元和TC神经元中的低阈值钙电流以及TC神经元中的超极化激活阳离子电流(I(h))在TC-RE网络的超谐波频率转换特性中也发挥着重要作用。直接传递至RE核的外侧苍白球(GPe)振荡活动,对TC-RE网络的超谐波频率转换特性也表现出显著的调节作用。