Search Results - "Bartol, Thomas M"
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Nanoconnectomic upper bound on the variability of synaptic plasticity
Published in eLife (30-11-2015)“…Information in a computer is quantified by the number of bits that can be stored and recovered. An important question about the brain is how much information…”
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NMDAR-dependent long-term depression is associated with increased short term plasticity through autophagy mediated loss of PSD-95
Published in Nature communications (14-05-2021)“…Long-term depression (LTD) of synaptic strength can take multiple forms and contribute to circuit remodeling, memory encoding or erasure. The generic term LTD…”
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Anomalous Diffusion of Single Particles in Cytoplasm
Published in Biophysical journal (16-04-2013)“…The crowded intracellular environment poses a formidable challenge to experimental and theoretical analyses of intracellular transport mechanisms. Our…”
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Pre-post synaptic alignment through neuroligin-1 tunes synaptic transmission efficiency
Published in eLife (25-07-2018)“…The nanoscale organization of neurotransmitter receptors regarding pre-synaptic release sites is a fundamental determinant of the synaptic transmission…”
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Mitochondrial morphology provides a mechanism for energy buffering at synapses
Published in Scientific reports (04-12-2019)“…Mitochondria as the main energy suppliers of eukaryotic cells are highly dynamic organelles that fuse, divide and are transported along the cytoskeleton to…”
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Extracellular sheets and tunnels modulate glutamate diffusion in hippocampal neuropil
Published in Journal of comparative neurology (1911) (01-02-2013)“…Although the extracellular space in the neuropil of the brain is an important channel for volume communication between cells and has other important functions,…”
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Long-term potentiation expands information content of hippocampal dentate gyrus synapses
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-03-2018)“…An approach combining signal detection theory and precise 3D reconstructions from serial section electron microscopy (3DEM) was used to investigate synaptic…”
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Computer simulations predict the impact of neuronal atrophy on the calcium dynamics in Huntington's disease
Published in PNAS nexus (01-01-2024)“…One of the early hallmarks of Huntington's disease (HD) is neuronal cell atrophy, especially in the striatum, underlying motor dysfunction in HD. Here using a…”
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Multiscale modeling of presynaptic dynamics from molecular to mesoscale
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-05-2022)“…Chemical synapses exhibit a diverse array of internal mechanisms that affect the dynamics of transmission efficacy. Many of these processes, such as release of…”
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MCell4 with BioNetGen: A Monte Carlo simulator of rule-based reaction-diffusion systems with Python interface
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-04-2024)“…Biochemical signaling pathways in living cells are often highly organized into spatially segregated volumes, membranes, scaffolds, subcellular compartments,…”
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Markov Chain Abstractions of Electrochemical Reaction-Diffusion in Synaptic Transmission for Neuromorphic Computing
Published in Frontiers in neuroscience (29-11-2021)“…Progress in computational neuroscience toward understanding brain function is challenged both by the complexity of molecular-scale electrochemical interactions…”
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Calmodulin activation by calcium transients in the postsynaptic density of dendritic spines
Published in PloS one (30-04-2008)“…The entry of calcium into dendritic spines can trigger a sequence of biochemical reactions that begins with the activation of calmodulin (CaM) and ends with…”
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Correction: Pre-post synaptic alignment through neuroligin-1 tunes synaptic transmission efficiency
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A multi-state model of the CaMKII dodecamer suggests a role for calmodulin in maintenance of autophosphorylation
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-12-2019)“…Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) accounts for up to 2 percent of all brain protein and is essential to memory function. CaMKII activity is…”
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Multi-state modeling of biomolecules
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-09-2014)“…Multi-state modeling of biomolecules refers to a series of techniques used to represent and compute the behavior of biological molecules or complexes that can…”
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Efficient Multiscale Models of Polymer Assembly
Published in Biophysical journal (12-07-2016)“…Protein polymerization and bundling play a central role in cell physiology. Predictive modeling of these processes remains an open challenge, especially when…”
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Short-term plasticity constrains spatial organization of a hippocampal presynaptic terminal
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-09-2012)“…Although the CA3–CA1 synapse is critically important for learning and memory, experimental limitations have to date prevented direct determination of the…”
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Modelling vesicular release at hippocampal synapses
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-11-2010)“…We study local calcium dynamics leading to a vesicle fusion in a stochastic, and spatially explicit, biophysical model of the CA3-CA1 presynaptic bouton. The…”
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Imbalance of ionic conductances contributes to diverse symptoms of demyelination
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-11-2010)“…Fast axonal conduction of action potentials in mammals relies on myelin insulation. Demyelination can cause slowed, blocked, desynchronized, or paradoxically…”
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Computational reconstitution of spine calcium transients from individual proteins
Published in Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience (07-10-2015)“…We have built a stochastic model in the program MCell that simulates Ca(2+) transients in spines from the principal molecular components believed to control…”
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