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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2318
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- European Research Council (ERC) [242852]
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale (F.R.M.)
- Neuron-ERANET project EPINet
- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche
- European Union Commission
- Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
- I.N.S.E.R.M.
- Ville de Marseille
- Region P.A.C.A.
- F.R.C.
- C.N.R.S.
- Ministere de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche
- National Institutes of Health (NIH RO1) [R01MH071679, R01NS039007]
- European Research Council (ERC) [242852] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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The developing CA3 hippocampus is comprised by highly connected hub neurons that are particularly effective in achieving network synchronization. Functional hub neurons were shown to be exclusively GABAergic, suggesting that the contribution of glutamatergic neurons to physiological synchronization processes at early postnatal stages is minimal. However, without fast GABAergic transmission, a different situation may prevail. In the adult CA3, blocking fast GABAergic transmission induces the generation of network bursts that can be triggered by the stimulation of single pyramidal neurons. Here we revisit the network function of CA3 glutamatergic neurons from a developmental viewpoint, without fast GABAergic transmission. We uncover a sub-population of early-generated glutamatergic neurons that impacts network dynamics when stimulated in the juvenile hippocampus. Additionally, this population displays characteristic morpho-physiological features in the juvenile and adult hippocampus. Therefore, the apparently homogeneous glutamatergic cell population likely displays a morpho-functional diversity rooted in temporal embryonic origins.
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