The brain demands a significant fraction of the energy budget in an organism; in humans, it accounts for 2% of the body mass, but utilizes 20% of the total energy metabolized. This is due to the large load required for information processing; spiking demands from neurons are high but are a key component to understanding brain functioning. Astrocytic brain cells contribute to the healthy functioning of brain circuits by mediating neuronal network energy and facilitating the formation and stabilization of synaptic connectivity. During development, spontaneous activity influences synaptic formation, shaping brain circuit construction, and adverse astrocyte mutations can lead to pathological processes impacting cognitive impairment due to inefficiencies in network spiking activity. We have developed a measure that quantifies information stability within in vitro networks consisting of mixed neural-astrocyte cells. Brain cells were harvested from mice with mutations to a gene associated with the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, APOE. We calculate energy states of the networks and using these states, we present an entropy-based measure to assess changes in information stability over time. We show that during development, stability profiles of spontaneous network activity are modified by exogenous astrocytes and that network stability, in terms of the rate of change of entropy, is allele dependent.
Entropy estimation within in vitro neural-astrocyte networks as a measure of development instability / Teneggi, J.; Chen, X.; Balu, A.; Barrett, C.; Grisolia, G.; Lucia, U.; Dzakpasu, R.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. E. - ISSN 2470-0045. - STAMPA. - 103(2021), pp. 042412-042427. [10.1103/PhysRevE.103.042412]
Titolo: | Entropy estimation within in vitro neural-astrocyte networks as a measure of development instability | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2021 | |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.042412 | |
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