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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20241-w
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- Research Council of Norway [231248, 217920, 248828, 250259]
- University of Oslo's Strategic Research Initiative CINPLA
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Perineuronal nets are suggested to stabilize synaptic connections and long-term memories. The removal of perineuronal nets disrupts the temporal and spatial organization of grid cell firing, impacting the stability of representations in both novel and familiar environments. This work indicates that perineuronal nets provide a key stabilizing element for the grid cell network.
Grid cells are part of a widespread network which supports navigation and spatial memory. Stable grid patterns appear late in development, in concert with extracellular matrix aggregates termed perineuronal nets (PNNs) that condense around inhibitory neurons. It has been suggested that PNNs stabilize synaptic connections and long-term memories, but their role in the grid cell network remains elusive. We show that removal of PNNs leads to lower inhibitory spiking activity, and reduces grid cells' ability to create stable representations of a novel environment. Furthermore, in animals with disrupted PNNs, exposure to a novel arena corrupted the spatiotemporal relationships within grid cell modules, and the stored representations of a familiar arena. Finally, we show that PNN removal in entorhinal cortex distorted spatial representations in downstream hippocampal neurons. Together this work suggests that PNNs provide a key stabilizing element for the grid cell network. Perineuronal nets may stabilize synaptic connections. Here, the authors show that removal of perineuronal nets disrupts both the temporal and spatial organization of grid cell firing.
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