Pyramidal and Stellate Cell Specificity of Grid and Border Representations in Layer 2 of Medial Entorhinal Cortex

Autor: Andrea Burgalossi, Robert K. Naumann, Michael Brecht, Christian L. Ebbesen, Helene Schmidt, Saikat Ray, Dominik Spicher, Qiusong Tang
Jazyk: angličtina
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Zdroj: Neuron
ISSN: 0896-6273
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.11.009
Popis: Summary In medial entorhinal cortex, layer 2 principal cells divide into pyramidal neurons (mostly calbindin positive) and dentate gyrus-projecting stellate cells (mostly calbindin negative). We juxtacellularly labeled layer 2 neurons in freely moving animals, but small sample size prevented establishing unequivocal structure-function relationships. We show, however, that spike locking to theta oscillations allows assigning unidentified extracellular recordings to pyramidal and stellate cells with ∼83% and ∼89% specificity, respectively. In pooled anatomically identified and theta-locking-assigned recordings, nonspatial discharges dominated, and weakly hexagonal spatial discharges and head-direction selectivity were observed in both cell types. Clear grid discharges were rare and mostly classified as pyramids (19%, 19/99 putative pyramids versus 3%, 3/94 putative stellates). Most border cells were classified as stellate (11%, 10/94 putative stellates versus 1%, 1/99 putative pyramids). Our data suggest weakly theta-locked stellate border cells provide spatial input to dentate gyrus, whereas strongly theta-locked grid discharges occur mainly in hexagonally arranged pyramidal cell patches and do not feed into dentate gyrus.
Highlights • Stellates and pyramids can be putatively assigned by spike locking to theta • Grid cells in entorhinal layer 2 largely correspond to putative pyramidal cells • Border responses in layer 2 largely correspond to putative stellate cells
Tang et al. investigated the cellular basis of spatial representations in layer 2 of medial entorhinal cortex and reported a cell-type specificity of spatial discharges: while most grid cells were putative pyramidal neurons, border cells were mainly putative stellate cells.
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