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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019

Dentate Gyrus Mossy Cells Share a Role in Pattern Separation with Dentate Granule Cells and Proximal CA3 Pyramidal Cells.

Douglas GoodSmith, Heekyung Lee, Joshua P Neunuebel, Hongjun Song, James J Knierim

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Douglas GoodSmithKrieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, d.goodsmith@gmail.com jknierim@jhu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5528-4448
Heekyung LeeKrieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218.ORCID 0000-0001-7232-3392
Joshua P NeunuebelKrieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218.ORCID 0000-0002-4894-4364
Hongjun SongDepartment of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.ORCID 0000-0002-8720-5310
James J KnierimKrieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, d.goodsmith@gmail.com jknierim@jhu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1796-2930
Johns Hopkins University · USKennedy Krieger Institute · USNeurosciences Institute · US

Funding

MULTI-SITE ANALYSIS OF HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONAL ENSEMBLESR01NS039456 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI JAMES J KNIERIM · 2000 to 2026
$9.1M
Training Program in NeuroscienceT32NS091018 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI JAMES J KNIERIM, Daniel Hans O'Connor · 2015 to 2026
$4.1M
Local circuitry mechanisms regulating adult hippocampal neurogenesisR37NS047344 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SONG, HONGJUN · 2013 to 2019
$2.9M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS039456NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS047344NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS091018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The complementary processes of pattern completion and pattern separation are thought to be essential for successful memory storage and recall. The dentate gyrus (DG) and proximal CA3 (pCA3) regions have been implicated in pattern separation, in part through extracellular recording studies of these areas. However, the DG contains two types of excitatory cells: granule cells of the granule layer and mossy cells of the hilus. Little is known about the firing properties of mossy cells in freely moving animals, and it is unclear how their activity may contribute to the mnemonic functions of the hippocampus. Furthermore, tetrodes in the dentate granule layer and pCA3 pyramidal layer can also record mossy cells, thus introducing ambiguity into the identification of cell types recorded. Using a random forests classifier, we classified cells recorded in DG (Neunuebel and Knierim, 2014) and pCA3 (Lee et al., 2015) of 16 male rats and separately examined the responses of granule cells, mossy cells, and pCA3 pyramidal cells in a local/global cue mismatch task. All three cell types displayed low correlations between the population representations of the rat's position in the standard and cue-mismatch sessions. These results suggest that all three excitatory cell types within the DG/pCA3 circuit may act as a single functional unit to support pattern separation.

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AnimalsCA3 Region, HippocampalDentate GyrusMaleMossy Fibers, HippocampalPyramidal CellsRandom AllocationRatsRats, Long-Evansdentate gyrusgranule cellshippocampusmossy cellspattern separationsingle-unit recording

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PMID31641051
PMCPMC6880467
OpenAlexW2981358975

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