scholarly journals Differential Coupling of Adult-Born Granule Cells to Parvalbumin and Somatostatin Interneurons

Cell Reports ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-214.e4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayelén I. Groisman ◽  
Sung M. Yang ◽  
Alejandro F. Schinder
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayelén I. Groisman ◽  
Sung M. Yang ◽  
Alejandro F. Schinder

ABSTRACTThe dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is dominated by a strong GABAergic tone that maintains sparse levels of activity. Adult neurogenesis disrupts this balance through the continuous addition of new granule cells (GCs) that display high excitability while develop and connect within the preexisting host circuit. The dynamics of the connectivity map for developing GCs in the local inhibitory networks remains unknown. We used optogenetics to study afferent and efferent synaptogenesis between new GCs and GABAergic interneurons expressing parvalbumin (PV-INs) and somatostatin (SST-INs). Inputs from PV-INs targeted the soma and remained immature until they grew abruptly in >4-week-old GCs. This transition was accelerated by exposure to enriched environment. Inputs from SST-INs were dendritic and developed slowly until reaching maturity by 8 weeks. Synaptic outputs from GCs onto PV-INs matured faster than those onto SST-INs, but also required several weeks. In the mature dentate network, PV-INs exerted an efficient control of GC spiking and were involved in both feedforward and feedback loops, a mechanism that would favor lateral inhibition and sparse coding. Our results reveal a long-lasting transition where adult-born neurons remain poorly coupled to inhibition, which might enable a parallel streaming channel from the entorhinal cortex to CA3 pyramidal cells.


Author(s):  
R.V.W. Dimlich ◽  
M.H. Biros

Although a previous study in this laboratory determined that Purkinje cells of the rat cerebellum did not appear to be damaged following 30 min of forebrain ischemia followed by 30 min of reperfusion, it was suggested that an increase in rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) and/or polysomes had occurred in these cells. The primary objective of the present study was to morphometrically determine whether or not this increase had occurred. In addition, since there is substantial evidence that glial cells may be affected by ischemia earlier than other cell types, glial cells also were examined. To ascertain possible effects on other cerebellar components, granule cells and neuropil near Purkinje cells as well as neuropil in the molecular layer also were evaluated in this investigation.


Author(s):  
K. Cullen-Dockstader ◽  
E. Fifkova

Normal aging results in a pronounced spatial memory deficit associated with a rapid decay of long-term potentiation at the synapses between the perforant path and spines in the medial and distal thirds of the dentate molecular layer (DML), suggesting the alteration of synaptic transmission in the dentate fascia. While the number of dentate granule cells remains unchanged, and there are no obvious pathological changes in these cells associated with increasing age, the density of their axospinous contacts has been shown to decrease. There are indications that the presynaptic element is affected by senescence before the postsynaptic element, yet little attention has been given to the fine structure of the remaining axon terminals. Therefore, we studied the axon terminals of the perforant path in the DML across three age groups.5 Male rats (Fischer 344) of each age group (3, 24 and 30 months), were perfused through the aorta.


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