title: Non-Markovian model for transport and reactions of particles in spiny dendrites.
abstract: Motivated by the experiments [Santamaria, Neuron 52, 635 (2006)10.1016/j.neuron.2006.10.025] that indicated the possibility of subdiffusive transport of molecules along dendrites of cerebellar Purkinje cells, we develop a mesoscopic model for transport and chemical reactions of particles in spiny dendrites. The communication between spines and a parent dendrite is described by a non-Markovian random process and, as a result, the overall movement of particles can be subdiffusive. A system of integrodifferential equations is derived for the particles densities in dendrites and spines. This system involves the spine-dendrite interaction term which describes the memory effects and nonlocality in space. We consider the impact of power-law waiting time distributions on the transport of biochemical signals and mechanism of the accumulation of plasticity-inducing signals inside spines.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics, The University of Manchester, Manchester M60 1QD, UK.
authors.forename: Sergei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fedotov
authors.forename: Vicenç
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Méndez
mesh_terms: D049229:Dendritic Spines / Q000378:metabolism*; D008390:Markov Chains; D008959:Models, Neurological; D010316:Particle Size; D013269:Stochastic Processes