Department of Physics, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, China.
School of Science, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 430065, China.
J Biol Phys. 2022 Sep;48(3):339-353. doi: 10.1007/s10867-022-09611-1. Epub 2022 Aug 10.
Biological neurons keep sensitive to external stimuli and appropriate firing modes can be triggered to give effective response to external chemical and physical signals. A piezoelectric neural circuit can perceive external voice and nonlinear vibration by generating equivalent piezoelectric voltage, which can generate an equivalent trans-membrane current for inducing a variety of firing modes in the neural activities. Biological neurons can receive external stimuli from more ion channels and synapse synchronously, but the further encoding and priority in mode selection are competitive. In particular, noisy disturbance and electromagnetic radiation make it more difficult in signals identification and mode selection in the firing patterns of neurons driven by multi-channel signals. In this paper, two different periodic signals accompanied by noise are used to excite the piezoelectric neural circuit, and the signal processing in the piezoelectric neuron driven by acoustic waves under noise is reproduced and explained. The physical energy of the piezoelectric neural circuit and Hamilton energy in the neuron driven by mixed signals are calculated to explain the biophysical mechanism of auditory neuron when external stimuli are applied. It is found that the neuron prefers to respond to the external stimulus with higher physical energy and the signal which can increase the Hamilton energy of the neuron. For example, stronger inputs used to inject higher energy and it is detected and responded more sensitively. The involvement of noise is helpful to detect the external signal under stochastic resonance, and the additive noise changes the excitability of neuron as the external stimulus. The results indicate that energy controls the firing patterns and mode selection in neurons, and it provides clues to control the neural activities by injecting appropriate energy into the neurons and network.
生物神经元对外界刺激保持敏感,并且可以触发适当的发射模式,以对外界化学和物理信号做出有效响应。压电神经电路可以通过产生等效的压电电压来感知外部声音和非线性振动,从而产生等效的跨膜电流,以在神经活动中引发各种发射模式。生物神经元可以通过更多的离子通道和突触同时接收外部刺激,但在模式选择中的进一步编码和优先级是竞争的。特别是,噪声干扰和电磁辐射使得在由多通道信号驱动的神经元的发射模式中的信号识别和模式选择更加困难。在本文中,使用两个伴随噪声的不同周期信号来激发压电神经电路,并再现和解释了声波驱动的压电神经元中在噪声下的信号处理。计算了压电神经电路的物理能量和混合信号驱动的神经元中的哈密顿能量,以解释外部刺激作用下听觉神经元的生物物理机制。结果表明,神经元更倾向于对外界刺激做出响应,这种刺激具有更高的物理能量和可以增加神经元哈密顿能量的信号。例如,更强的输入用于注入更高的能量,并且可以更敏感地检测和响应。噪声的参与有助于在随机共振下检测外部信号,并且外加噪声会改变神经元的兴奋性作为外部刺激。结果表明,能量控制着神经元的发射模式和模式选择,并为通过向神经元和网络注入适当的能量来控制神经活动提供了线索。