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ArticleProgress in neurobiology2023

Reclusive chandeliers: Functional isolation of dentate axo-axonic cells after experimental status epilepticus.

Archana Proddutur, Susan Nguyen, Chia-Wei Yeh, Akshay Gupta, Vijayalakshmi Santhakumar

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Article in Progress in neurobiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Archana ProdduturDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
Susan NguyenDepartment of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
Chia-Wei YehDepartment of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
Akshay GuptaDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
Vijayalakshmi SanthakumarDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. Electronic address: vijayas@ucr.edu.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USUniversity of California, Riverside · US

Funding

Contribution of Innate Immune Receptors to Neurological Dysfunction After Traumatic Brain Injury: Mechanisms and Therapeutic ImplicationsR01NS097750 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI SANTHAKUMAR, VIJAYALAKSHMI · 2016 to 2025
$4.0M
Perisomatic Inhibitory Network Dysfunction in Neurological DiseaseR01NS069861 · NINDS · UNIV OF MED/DENT OF NJ-NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI SANTHAKUMAR, VIJAYALAKSHMI · 2011 to 2022
$3.4M
Role of TLR4 in Neuronal Excitability and Memory FunctionF31NS120620 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI NGUYEN, SUSAN T · 2021 to 2023
$118k
NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS120620NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS069861NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS097750
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Axo-axonic cells (AACs) provide specialized inhibition to the axon initial segment (AIS) of excitatory neurons and can regulate network output and synchrony. Although hippocampal dentate AACs are structurally altered in epilepsy, physiological analyses of dentate AACs are lacking. We demonstrate that parvalbumin neurons in the dentate molecular layer express PTHLH, an AAC marker, and exhibit morphology characteristic of AACs. Dentate AACs show high-frequency, non-adapting firing but lack persistent firing in the absence of input and have higher rheobase than basket cells suggesting that AACs can respond reliably to network activity. Early after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus (SE), dentate AACs receive fewer spontaneous excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs and have significantly lower maximum firing frequency. Paired recordings and spatially localized optogenetic stimulation revealed that SE reduced the amplitude of unitary synaptic inputs from AACs to granule cells without altering reliability, short-term plasticity, or AIS GABA reversal potential. These changes compromised AAC-dependent shunting of granule cell firing in a multicompartmental model. These early post-SE changes in AAC physiology would limit their ability to receive and respond to input, undermining a critical brake on the dentate throughput during epileptogenesis.

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Dentate GyrusStatus EpilepticusAxonsHumansNeuronsReproducibility of ResultsChandelier cellDentate gyrusEpileptogenesisGABA reversalGranule cellInhibitionSeizureSynapse

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