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Contribution of Persistent Na⁺ Current and M-Type K⁺ Current to Somatic Bursting in CA1 Pyramidal Cells: Combined Experimental and Modeling Study

¹Department of Physiology and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Be’er-Sheva, Israel; and ²Department of Physiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Hebrew University-Hadassah Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Submitted 26 February 2006; accepted in final form 21 June 2006

The intrinsic firing modes of adult CA1 pyramidal cells vary along a continuum of "burstiness" from regular firing to rhythmic bursting, depending on the ionic composition of the extracellular milieu. Burstiness is low in neurons exposed to a normal extracellular Ca²⁺ concentration ([Ca²⁺]_o), but is markedly enhanced by lowering [Ca²⁺]_o, although not by blocking Ca²⁺ and Ca²⁺-activated K⁺ currents. We show, using intracellular recordings, that burstiness in low [Ca²⁺]_o persists even after truncating the apical dendrites, suggesting that bursts are generated by an interplay of membrane currents at or near the soma. To study the mechanisms of bursting, we have constructed a conductance-based, one-compartment model of CA1 pyramidal neurons. In this neuron model, reduced [Ca²⁺]_o is simulated by negatively shifting the activation curve of the persistent Na⁺ current (I_NaP) as indicated by recent experimental results. The neuron model accounts, with different parameter sets, for the diversity of firing patterns observed experimentally in both zero and normal [Ca²⁺]_o. Increasing I_NaP in the neuron model induces bursting and increases the number of spikes within a burst but is neither necessary nor sufficient for bursting. We show, using fast-slow analysis and bifurcation theory, that the M-type K⁺ current (I_M) allows bursting by shifting neuronal behavior between a silent and a tonically active state provided the kinetics of the spike generating currents are sufficiently, although not extremely, fast. We suggest that bursting in CA1 pyramidal cells can be explained by a single compartment "square bursting" mechanism with one slow variable, the activation of I_M.

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