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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 1090-1103Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1360-21.2021
Keywords
dentate gyrus; feedback inhibition; GABA; parvalbumin; semilunar granule cell
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- National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [R01 NS069861, R01NS097750]
- New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research Grants [CBIR16IRG017, CBIR15FEL011, CBIR11FEL003]
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This study reveals that fast-spiking parvalbumin interneurons (PV-INs) contribute minimally to basal synaptic inhibition but selectively mediate sustained feedback inhibition in a subtype of dentate projection neurons called semilunar granule cells (SGCs). The blunting of activity-driven sustained inhibitory gating in SGCs may play a crucial role in their preferential and persistent recruitment during behavioral tasks.
Strong inhibitory synaptic gating of dentate gyrus granule cells (GCs), attributed largely to fast-spiking parvalbumin inter neurons (PV-INs), is essential to maintain sparse network activity needed for dentate dependent behaviors. However, the contribution of PV-INs to basal and input-driven sustained synaptic inhibition in GCs and semilunar granule cells (SGCs), a sparse morphologically distinct dentate projection neuron subtype, is currently unknown. In studies conducted in hippocampal slices from mice, we find that although basal IPSCs are more frequent in SGCs and optical activation of PV-INs reliably elicited IPSCs in both GCs and SGCs, optical suppression of PV-INs failed to reduce IPSC frequency in either cell type. Amplitude and kinetics of IPSCs evoked by perforant path (PP) activation were not different between GCs and SGCs. However, the robust increase in sustained polysynaptic IPSCs elicited by paired afferent stimulation was lower in SGCs than in simultaneously recorded GCs. Optical suppression of PV-IN selectively reduced sustained IPSCs in SGCs but not in GCs. These results demonstrate that PV-INs, while contributing minimally to basal synaptic inhibition in both GCs and SGCs in slices, mediate sustained feedback inhibition selectively in SGCs. The temporally selective blunting of activity-driven sustained inhibitory gating of SGCs could support their preferential and persistent recruitment during behavioral tasks.
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