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Parvalbumin interneurons provide grid cell–driven recurrent inhibition in the medial entorhinal cortex

Buetfering, Christina, Allen, Kevin, Monyer, Hannah·2014·Nature Neuroscience

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Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) generate metric spatial representations. Recent attractor-network models suggest an essential role for GABAergic interneurons in the emergence of the grid-cell firing pattern through recurrent inhibition dependent on grid-cell phase. To test this hypothesis, we studied identified parvalbumin-expressing (PV(+)) interneurons that are the most likely candidate for providing this recurrent inhibition onto grid cells. Using optogenetics and tetrode recordings in mice, we found that PV(+) interneurons exhibited high firing rates, low spatial sparsity and no spatial periodicity. PV(+) interneurons inhibited all functionally defined cell types in the MEC and were in turn recruited preferentially by grid cells. To our surprise, we found that individual PV(+) interneurons received input from grid cells with various phases, which most likely accounts for the broadly tuned spatial firing activity of PV(+) interneurons. Our data argue against the notion that PV(+) interneurons provide phase-dependent recurrent inhibition and challenge recent attractor-network models of grid cells.

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Authors: Buetfering, C., Allen, K., & Monyer, H.
Affiliations: German Cancer Research Center (DE)
Corresponding author: Monyer, Hannah
ORCID: Buetfering, Christina
Allen, Kevin
Monyer, Hannah
Venue: Nature Neuroscience
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2014-04-06
Volume: 17
Issue: 5
Pages: 710-718
ISSN: 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
1546-1726
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3696
OpenAlex: W2068578235
Cited by: 160
References: 46
Citations by year: 2026: 8 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 8
FWCI: 11.15
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Keywords: parvalbumin interneurons, medial entorhinal cortex, grid cells, recurrent inhibition, spatial tuning, head direction cells, GABAergic interneurons, spatial representation, optogenetic stimulation
MeSH terms: Channelrhodopsins, Red Fluorescent Protein, Action Potentials, Dependovirus, Animals, Humans, Interneurons, Lasers, Luminescent Proteins, Microinjections, Models, Neurological, Nerve Net, Neural Inhibition, Parvalbumins, Theta Rhythm, Transduction, Genetic, Statistics, Nonparametric, Entorhinal Cortex, Maze Learning, Mice

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