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Estimating the Readily-Releasable Vesicle Pool Size at Synaptic Connections in a Neocortical Microcircuit

N Barros-Zulaica, J Rahmon, G Chindemi, R Perin, H Markram, S Ramaswamy, E Muller
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/646497
N Barros-Zulaica
Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Campus Biotech, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
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  • For correspondence: natali.barroszulaica@epfl.ch
J Rahmon
Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Campus Biotech, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
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G Chindemi
Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Campus Biotech, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
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R Perin
Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, LNMC, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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H Markram
Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Campus Biotech, 1202 Geneva, SwitzerlandBlue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, LNMC, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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S Ramaswamy
Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Campus Biotech, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
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E Muller
Blue Brain Project, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Campus Biotech, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
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Abstract

Previous studies based on the ‘Quantal Model’ for synaptic transmission suggested that neurotransmitter release is mediated by a single release site at individual synaptic contacts in the neocortex. However, recent studies seem to contradict this hypothesis and indicate that multi-vesicular release (MVR) could better explain the synaptic response variability observed in vitro. In this study we present a novel method to estimate the number of release sites per synapse, also known as the size of the readily-releasable pool (NRRP), from paired whole-cell recordings of layer 5 thick tufted pyramidal cell (L5_TTPC) connections in the somatosensory neocortex. Our approach extends the work of Loebel and colleagues to take advantage of a recently reported data-driven biophysical model of neocortical tissue. Using this approach, we estimated NRRP to be between two to three for connections between L5-TTPC. To constrain NRRP values for other connections in the microcircuit, we developed and validated a generalization approach using data on post-synaptic potential (PSP) coefficient of variations (CVs) from literature and matching to in silico experiments. Our study shows that synaptic connections in the neocortex generally are mediated by MVR and provides a data-driven approach to constrain the MVR model parameters of the microcircuit.

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Estimating the Readily-Releasable Vesicle Pool Size at Synaptic Connections in a Neocortical Microcircuit
N Barros-Zulaica, J Rahmon, G Chindemi, R Perin, H Markram, S Ramaswamy, E Muller
bioRxiv 646497; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/646497
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Estimating the Readily-Releasable Vesicle Pool Size at Synaptic Connections in a Neocortical Microcircuit
N Barros-Zulaica, J Rahmon, G Chindemi, R Perin, H Markram, S Ramaswamy, E Muller
bioRxiv 646497; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/646497

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