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ArticleNature communications2017

Activity dependent feedback inhibition may maintain head direction signals in mouse presubiculum.

Jean Simonnet, Mérie Nassar, Federico Stella, Ivan Cohen, Bertrand Mathon, Charlotte N Boccara, Richard Miles, Desdemona Fricker

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Anterior Thalamic Excitation and Feedforward Inhibition of Presubicular Neurons Projecting to Medial Entorhinal Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  19. Testing the Efficacy of Single-Cell Stimulation in Biasing Presubicular Head Direction Activity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jean SimonnetInserm U1127, CNRS UMR7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 6 UMR S1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, Paris 75013, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3763-7614
Mérie NassarInserm U1127, CNRS UMR7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 6 UMR S1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, Paris 75013, France.
Federico StellaInstitut of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria.
Ivan CohenINSERM U1130, CNRS UMR8246, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 6 UM CR 18, Neuroscience Paris Seine, Paris 75005, France.
Bertrand MathonInserm U1127, CNRS UMR7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 6 UMR S1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, Paris 75013, France.ORCID 0000-0002-9182-5846
Charlotte N BoccaraInstitut of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria.
Richard MilesInserm U1127, CNRS UMR7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 6 UMR S1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, Paris 75013, France.
Desdemona FrickerInserm U1127, CNRS UMR7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 6 UMR S1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, Paris 75013, France.ORCID 0000-0001-7328-9480
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRDélégation Paris 5 · FRInstitute of Science and Technology Austria · AT

Funding

European Research Council 322721
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Orientation in space is represented in specialized brain circuits. Persistent head direction signals are transmitted from anterior thalamus to the presubiculum, but the identity of the presubicular target neurons, their connectivity and function in local microcircuits are unknown. Here, we examine how thalamic afferents recruit presubicular principal neurons and Martinotti interneurons, and the ensuing synaptic interactions between these cells. Pyramidal neuron activation of Martinotti cells in superficial layers is strongly facilitating such that high-frequency head directional stimulation efficiently unmutes synaptic excitation. Martinotti-cell feedback plays a dual role: precisely timed spikes may not inhibit the firing of in-tune head direction cells, while exerting lateral inhibition. Autonomous attractor dynamics emerge from a modelled network implementing wiring motifs and timing sensitive synaptic interactions in the pyramidal-Martinotti-cell feedback loop. This inhibitory microcircuit is therefore tuned to refine and maintain head direction information in the presubiculum.

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FeedbackHeadAnimalsInterneuronsMiceNeural InhibitionNeural PathwaysNeuronsNeurons, AfferentOrientation, SpatialParahippocampal GyrusPyramidal CellsThalamus

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PMID28726769
PMCPMC5524997
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