Spatial Representations of Granule Cells and Mossy Cells of the Dentate Gyrus.
Spatial Representations of Granule Cells and Mossy Cells of the Dentate Gyrus.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.neuron.2016.12.026
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发表时间:
2017-02-08
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16.2
通讯作者:
Knierim JJ
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作者:
GoodSmith D;Chen X;Wang C;Kim SH;Song H;Burgalossi A;Christian KM;Knierim JJ
Granule cells in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus are thought to be essential to memory function by decorrelating overlapping input patterns (pattern separation). A second excitatory cell type in the dentate gyrus, the mossy cell, forms an intricate circuit with granule cells, CA3c pyramidal cells, and local interneurons, but the influence of mossy cells on dentate function is often overlooked. Multiple tetrode recordings, supported by juxtacellular recording techniques, showed that granule cells fired very sparsely, whereas mossy cells in the hilus fired promiscuously in multiple locations and in multiple environments. The activity patterns of these cell types thus represent different environments through distinct computational mechanisms: sparse coding in granule cells and changes in firing field locations in mossy cells. Using tetrode and juxtacellular recordings, GoodSmith et al. demonstrate distinct spatial firing and remapping properties of excitatory cell types within the dentate gyrus and CA3c and assess how these cells may support pattern separation in the dentate-CA3 circuit.