期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 35, 期 46, 页码 15391-15395出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0685-15.2015
关键词
head direction; juxtacellular; presubiculum; theta
资金
- Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Forderkennzeichen) [01GQ1001A]
- NeuroCure
- Neuro-Behavior European Research Council
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize)
The presubiculum provides a major input to the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) and contains cells that encode for the animal's head direction (HD), as well as other cells likely to be important for navigation and memory, including grid cells. To understand the mechanisms underlying HD cell firing and its effects on other parts of the circuit, it is important to determine the anatomical identity of these functionally defined cells. Therefore, we juxtacellularly recorded single cells in the presubiculum in freely moving rats, finding two classes of cells based on firing patterns and juxtacellular labeling (of a subset). Regular-firing cells had the anatomical characteristics of pyramidal cells and included most recorded HD cells. Therefore, HD cells are likely to be excitatory pyramidal cells. For one HD cell, we could follow an axon projecting directly to the MEC. Fast-spiking (FS) cells had the anatomical characteristics of interneurons and displayed weak HD tuning. Furthermore, FS cells displayed a surprising lack of theta-rhythmic firing, in strong contrast to the FS cells that we recorded in the MEC. Overall, we show that HD cells in the presubiculum are pyramidal cells, with FS interneurons only showing weak HD tuning; therefore, MEC may receive an excitatory HD input, as previously assumed by many models. The lack of theta rhythmicity in FS interneurons suggests that different mechanisms may underlie theta in different parts of the hippocampal formation.
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