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ArticleeLife2022

Rapid odor processing by layer 2 subcircuits in lateral entorhinal cortex.

Sebastian H Bitzenhofer, Elena A Westeinde, Han-Xiong Bear Zhang, Jeffry S Isaacson

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Article in eLife, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Behavioral Relevance of Early Neural Coding of Low-Level Odor Features in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  6. Distinct brain regions map olfactory and visual spaces.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  8. Developmental Olfactory Dysfunction and Abnormal Odor Memory in Immune-ChallengedThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  9. Neuron synchronization analyzed through spatial-temporal attention.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2025
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  14. Odors in space.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Sebastian H BitzenhoferCenter for Neural Circuits and Behavior and Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0736-6251
Elena A WesteindeCenter for Neural Circuits and Behavior and Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.
Han-Xiong Bear ZhangCenter for Neural Circuits and Behavior and Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.
Jeffry S IsaacsonCenter for Neural Circuits and Behavior and Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9052-5211

Funding

Synaptic Processing in the Olfactory SystemR01DC004682 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ISAACSON, JEFFRY S · 2001 to 2020
$6.3M
Dynamic sensory representations in adult auditory cortexR01DC015239 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ISAACSON, JEFFRY S · 2017 to 2021
$2.1M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC004682NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC015239
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Olfactory information is encoded in lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) by two classes of layer 2 (L2) principal neurons: fan and pyramidal cells. However, the functional properties of L2 cells and how they contribute to odor coding are unclear. Here, we show in awake mice that L2 cells respond to odors early during single sniffs and that LEC is essential for rapid discrimination of both odor identity and intensity. Population analyses of L2 ensembles reveal that rate coding distinguishes odor identity, but firing rates are only weakly concentration dependent and changes in spike timing can represent odor intensity. L2 principal cells differ in afferent olfactory input and connectivity with inhibitory circuits and the relative timing of pyramidal and fan cell spikes provides a temporal code for odor intensity. Downstream, intensity is encoded purely by spike timing in hippocampal CA1. Together, these results reveal the unique processing of odor information by LEC subcircuits and highlight the importance of temporal coding in higher olfactory areas.

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OdorantsEntorhinal CortexHumansNeuronsSmellcircuitmouseneuroscienceodor processingolfactory

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PMID35129439
PMCPMC8860446

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