Functional fission of parvalbumin interneuron classes during fast network events

  1. Csaba Varga  Is a corresponding author
  2. Mikko Oijala
  3. Jonathan Lish
  4. Gergely G Szabo
  5. Marianne Bezaire
  6. Ivan Marchionni
  7. Peyman Golshani
  8. Ivan Soltesz
  1. University of California, Irvine, United States
  2. David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Abstract

Fast spiking, parvalbumin (PV) expressing hippocampal interneurons are classified into basket, axo-axonic (chandelier) and bistratified cells. These cell classes play key roles in regulating local circuit operations and rhythmogenesis by releasing GABA in precise temporal patterns onto distinct domains of principal cells. Here we show that each of the three major PV cell classes further splits into functionally distinct subclasses during fast network events in vivo. During the slower (<10Hz) theta oscillations, each cell class exhibited its own characteristic, relatively uniform firing behavior. However, during faster (>90Hz) oscillations, within-class differences in PV interneuron discharges emerged that segregated along specific features of dendritic structure or somatic location. Functional divergence of PV subclasses during fast but not slow network oscillations effectively doubles the repertoire of spatio-temporal patterns of GABA release available for rapid circuit operations.

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  1. Csaba Varga

    University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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  2. Mikko Oijala

    University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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  3. Jonathan Lish

    University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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  4. Gergely G Szabo

    University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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  5. Marianne Bezaire

    University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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  6. Ivan Marchionni

    University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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  7. Peyman Golshani

    David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
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  8. Ivan Soltesz

    University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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  1. Frances K Skinner, University Health Network, and University of Toronto, Canada

Ethics

Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All procedures were approved by the University of California Irvine Animal Care and Use Committee (protocol #1999-1719) and the University of Pecs, Hungary . All surgery was performed under deep isoflurane anesthesia, and every effort was made to minimize suffering.

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  1. Received: July 14, 2014
  2. Accepted: November 6, 2014
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: November 6, 2014 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: December 4, 2014 (version 2)

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© 2014, Varga et al.

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  1. Csaba Varga
  2. Mikko Oijala
  3. Jonathan Lish
  4. Gergely G Szabo
  5. Marianne Bezaire
  6. Ivan Marchionni
  7. Peyman Golshani
  8. Ivan Soltesz
(2014)
Functional fission of parvalbumin interneuron classes during fast network events
eLife 3:e04006.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04006

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