Sparks Daniel W, Chapman C Andrew
Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
J Neurophysiol. 2016 Aug 1;116(2):658-70. doi: 10.1152/jn.00095.2016. Epub 2016 May 4.
The superficial layers of the entorhinal cortex receive sensory and associational cortical inputs and provide the hippocampus with the majority of its cortical sensory input. The parasubiculum, which receives input from multiple hippocampal subfields, sends its single major output projection to layer II of the entorhinal cortex, suggesting that it may modulate processing of synaptic inputs to the entorhinal cortex. Indeed, stimulation of the parasubiculum can enhance entorhinal responses to synaptic input from the piriform cortex in vivo. Theta EEG activity contributes to spatial and mnemonic processes in this region, and the current study assessed how stimulation of the parasubiculum with either single pulses or short, five-pulse, theta-frequency trains may modulate synaptic responses in layer II entorhinal stellate neurons evoked by stimulation of layer I afferents in vitro. Parasubicular stimulation pulses or trains suppressed responses to layer I stimulation at intervals of 5 ms, and parasubicular stimulation trains facilitated layer I responses at a train-pulse interval of 25 ms. This suggests that firing of parasubicular neurons during theta activity may heterosynaptically enhance incoming sensory inputs to the entorhinal cortex. Bath application of the hyperpolarization-activated cation current (Ih) blocker ZD7288 enhanced the facilitation effect, suggesting that cholinergic inhibition of Ih may contribute. In addition, repetitive pairing of parasubicular trains and layer I stimulation induced a lasting depression of entorhinal responses to layer I stimulation. These findings provide evidence that theta activity in the parasubiculum may promote heterosynaptic modulation effects that may alter sensory processing in the entorhinal cortex.
内嗅皮质的表层接收感觉和联合皮质输入,并为海马体提供大部分皮质感觉输入。副海马旁回接收来自多个海马亚区的输入,其唯一主要输出投射至内嗅皮质的第II层,这表明它可能调节内嗅皮质突触输入的处理过程。实际上,在体内刺激副海马旁回可增强内嗅皮质对来自梨状皮质突触输入的反应。θ脑电图活动有助于该区域的空间和记忆过程,当前研究评估了用单个脉冲或短的五脉冲θ频率序列刺激副海马旁回如何在体外调节由刺激第I层传入纤维诱发的内嗅皮质第II层星状神经元的突触反应。副海马旁回刺激脉冲或序列在5毫秒间隔时抑制对第I层刺激的反应,而副海马旁回刺激序列在序列-脉冲间隔为25毫秒时促进第I层反应。这表明在θ活动期间副海马旁回神经元的放电可能通过异突触增强传入内嗅皮质的感觉输入。浴用超极化激活阳离子电流(Ih)阻断剂ZD7288增强了促进作用,提示胆碱能对Ih的抑制可能起作用。此外,副海马旁回序列与第I层刺激的重复配对诱导了内嗅皮质对第I层刺激反应的持久抑制。这些发现提供了证据,表明副海马旁回中的θ活动可能促进异突触调节作用,从而可能改变内嗅皮质中的感觉处理。