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Stochastic Spatially-Extended Simulations Predict the Effect of ER Distribution on Astrocytic Microdomain Ca2+ Activity
- Source :
- NANOCOM, NANOCOM 2021: Eighth Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, NANOCOM 2021: Eighth Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, Sep 2021, New York, NY, United States. pp.1-5, ⟨10.1145/3477206.3477456⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- ACM, 2021.
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Abstract
- International audience; Astrocytes are cells of the central nervous system that can regulate neuronal activity. Most astrocyte-neuron communication occurs at so-called tripartite synapses, where calcium signals are triggered in astrocytes by neuronal activity, resulting in the release of neuroactive molecules by the astrocyte. Most astrocytic Ca 2+ signals occur in very thin astrocytic branchlets, containing low copy number of molecules, so that reactions are highly stochastic. As those sub-cellular compartments cannot be resolved by diffraction-limited microscopy techniques, stochastic reaction-diffusion computational approaches can give crucial insights on astrocyte activity. Here, we use our stochastic voxel-based model of IP 3 R-mediated Ca 2+ signals to investigate the effect of the distance between the synapse and the closest astrocytic endoplasmic reticulum (ER) on neuronal activityinduced Ca 2+ signals. Simulations are performed in three dimensional meshes characterized by various ER-synapse distances. Our results suggest that Ca 2+ peak amplitude, duration and frequency decrease rapidly as ER-synapse distance increases. We propose that this effect mostly results from the increased cytosolic volume of branchlets that are characterized by larger ER-synapse distances. In particular, varying ER-synapse distance with constant cytosolic volume does not affect local Ca 2+ activity. This study illustrates the insights that can be provided by three-dimensional stochastic reaction-diffusion simulations on the biophysical constraints that shape the spatio-temporal characteristics of astrocyte activity at the nanoscale.
- Subjects :
- Computational neuroscience
Chemistry
[SDV.NEU.NB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Neurobiology
Endoplasmic reticulum
Lipid microdomain
Central nervous system
astrocytes
tripartite synapses
reaction-diffusion simulations
Synapse
calcium microdomain
Cytosol
medicine.anatomical_structure
computational neuroscience
medicine
Biophysics
Premovement neuronal activity
Astrocyte
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Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the Eight Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c934d4ef58809d09724d12e6414bc17f