Altered hippocampal interneuron activity precedes ictal onset
- Yale University, United States
Abstract
Although failure of GABAergic inhibition is a commonly hypothesized mechanism underlying seizure disorders, the series of events that precipitate a rapid shift from healthy to ictal activity remain unclear. Furthermore, the diversity of inhibitory interneuron populations poses a challenge for understanding local circuit interactions during seizure initiation. Using a combined optogenetic and electrophysiological approach, we examined the activity of identified mouse hippocampal interneuron classes during chemoconvulsant seizure induction in vivo. Surprisingly, synaptic inhibition from parvalbumin- (PV) and somatostatin-expressing (SST) interneurons remained intact throughout the preictal period and early ictal phase. However, these two sources of inhibition exhibited cell type-specific differences in their preictal firing patterns and sensitivity to input. Our findings suggest that the onset of ictal activity is not associated with loss of firing by these interneurons or a failure of synaptic inhibition, but is instead linked with disruptions of the respective roles these interneurons play in the hippocampal circuit.
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National Eye Institute (EY022951)
- Jessica Cardin
National Science Foundation (Graduate Student Fellowship)
- Mitra L Miri
Ford Foundation (Graduate Student Fellowship)
- Mitra L Miri
Human Frontiers (Postdoctoral Fellowship)
- Martin Vinck
Rubicon Fellowship (Postdoctoral Fellowship)
- Martin Vinck
Whitehall Foundation (Research Grant)
- Jessica Cardin
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Fellowship)
- Jessica Cardin
Swebilius Foundation (Grant)
- Jessica Cardin
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: This study was performed in accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Yale University (#2015-11317).
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© 2018, Miri et al.
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Altered hippocampal interneuron activity precedes ictal onset
eLife 7:e40750.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40750
