Author:
James Ben,Piekarz Pawel,Moya-Diaz José,Lagnado Leon
Abstract
The statistics of vesicle release determine how information is transferred in neural circuits. The classical model is of Poisson synapses releasing vesicles independently but ribbon synapses transmit early sensory signals by multivesicular release (MVR) when two or more vesicles are coordinated as a single synaptic event. To investigate the impact of MVR on the spike code we used leaky integrate-and-fire models with inputs simulating the statistics of vesicle release measured experimentally from retinal bipolar cells. Comparing these with models of independent release we find that MVR increases spike generation and the efficiency of information transfer (bits per spike) over a range of conditions that mimic retinal ganglion cells of different time-constant receiving different number of synaptic inputs of different strengths. When a single input drives a neuron with short time-constant, as occurs when hair cells transmit auditory signals, MVR increases information transfer whenever spike generation requires depolarization greater than that caused by a single vesicle. This study demonstrates how presynaptic integration of vesicles by MVR can compensate for less effective summation post-synaptically to increase the efficiency with which sensory information is transmitted at the synapse.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cited by
2 articles.
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