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ArticleJournal of biological physics2011

Inferring and quantifying the role of an intrinsic current in a mechanism for a half-center bursting oscillation: A dominant scale and hybrid dynamical systems analysis.

Robert Clewley

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Article in Journal of biological physics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Robust phase-waves in chains of half-center oscillators.Journal of mathematical biology · 2017
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  6. Phase response properties of half-center oscillators.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Robert ClewleyNeuroscience Institute and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper illustrates an informatic technique for inferring and quantifying the dynamic role of a single intrinsic current in a mechanism of neural bursting activity. We analyze the patterns of the most dominant currents in a model of half-center oscillation in the leech heartbeat central pattern generator. We find that the patterns of dominance change substantially over a cycle, allowing different local reductions to be applied to the model. The result is a hybrid dynamical systems model, which is a piecewise representation of the mechanism combining multiple vector fields and discrete state changes. The simulation of such a model tests explicit hypotheses about the mechanism and is a novel way to retain both mathematical clarity and scientific detail in answering mechanistic questions about a complex model. Several insights into the central mechanism of "escape-release" in the model are elucidated by this analysis and compared with previous studies. The broader application and extension of this technique is also discussed.

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Bursting dynamicsCentral pattern generationDominant scale analysisHybrid dynamical systems reductionModel inferenceNeuroinformatics

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PMID22654178
PMCPMC3101323

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