Rat hippocampus CA1

This Use Case places hippocampal neurons into a volume defined by an atlas. The Use Case can be found in Online Use Cases/Circuit Building/Cells placement/Hippocampus CA1.

Approach:

../../../../_images/workflow.png

The workflow is a sequence of independent steps manipulating volumetric data retrieved from the Neuroinformatics Platform. Each steps defines additional properties of the cells.

The sequence of steps is the following:

  • Define the region of interest based on the parcellation given by the atlas

  • Define cell positions based on given neuron densities

  • Define excitatory/inhibitory properties based on given ratio

  • Define ME-Type properties based on M-Type and E-Type ratio

  • Define the morphology to be used based on available morphologies and previously defined properties

  • Define cell orientation based on a computed orientation field in the volume

Input data:

Volume

Volume was adapted from Ropireddy et al., 2012

Cell composition

Morphoelectrical-type composition

We collected 146 electrophysiological single cell recordings from different neuron types (Alex Thomson, Audrey Mercer and colleagues) (Wistar rat - for the methods see Hughes et al., 2000; Pawelzik et al., 2002). We classified the recordings on the basis of stereotypical firing patterns (electrical types, e-types) according to the Petilla Convention (Ascoli et al., 2008) in response to depolarizing step current injections. For some e-types, we had too few recordings and for this reason we restricted the e-types to classical accommodating (cAC), bursting accommodating (bAC) and classical non-accommodating (cNAC). Each morphology type (m-type) can show multiple firing patterns, leading to different morpho-electrical types (me-types).

cNAC

cAC

bAC

Ivy

33.33%

0.00%

66.67%

OLM

0.00%

100.00%

0.00%

PVBC

70.00%

0.00%

30.00%

CCKBC

0.00%

100.00%

0.00%

BS

75.00%

0.00%

25.00%

AA

0.00%

0.00%

100.00%

SCA

0.00%

100.00%

0.00%

PPA

0.00%

0.00%

100.00%

IS1

0.00%

100.00%

0.00%

IS3

0.00%

100.00%

0.00%

Tri

0.00%

100.00%

0.00%

Executing the Use Case

Execute the cell (SHIFT + ENTER) in the “Cell Placement Hippocampus Setup” notebook. Then navigate to the “Cell Placement Hippocampus” notebook and execute them sequentially (SHIFT + ENTER).

  1. positioning neurons

    This step computes cell positions with downscaled densities as an illustration. It then displays the cell positions in a widget.

    ../../../../_images/position.png
  2. defining excitatory/inhibitory property

    This step computes the excitatory/inhibitory property based on the provided ratio and displays it in a widget.

    ../../../../_images/ei.png
  3. defining M-Type and E-Type properties

    This step computes the M-Type property and E-Type property at the same time and displays them in a widget.

    M-Type property:

    ../../../../_images/mtype.png

    E-Type property:

    ../../../../_images/etype.png
  4. defining morphology for the cell position

    This step computes which morphology will be assigned to a particular cell position.

    ../../../../_images/morphology.png
  5. defining cell orientation

    This steps computes the 3 vector fields X, Y, and Z and uses them to orient each neuron.

    X vector field:

    ../../../../_images/x.png

    Y vector field:

    ../../../../_images/y.png

    Z vector field:

    ../../../../_images/z.png