Optogenetic inhibition-mediated activity-dependent modification of CA1 pyramidal-interneuron connections during behavior
- IST Austria, Austria
Abstract
In vitro work revealed that excitatory synaptic inputs to hippocampal inhibitory interneurons could undergo Hebbian, associative or non-associative plasticity. Both behavioral and learning-dependent reorganization of these connections has also been demonstrated by measuring spike transmission probabilities in pyramidal cell-interneuron spike cross-correlations that indicate monosynaptic connections. Here we investigated the activity-dependent modification of these connections during exploratory behavior in rats by optogenetically inhibiting pyramidal cell and interneuron subpopulations. Light application and associated firing alteration of pyramidal and interneuron populations led to lasting changes of pyramidal-interneuron connection weights as indicated by spike transmission changes. Spike transmission alterations were predicted by the light-mediated changes in the number of pre- and postsynaptic spike pairing events and by firing rate changes of interneurons but not pyramidal cells. This work demonstrates the presence of activity-dependent associative and non-associative reorganization of pyramidal-interneuron connections triggered by the optogenetic modification of the firing rate and spike synchrony of cells.
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Original data and programs are available in the scientific repository of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria upon publications.(https://research-explorer.app.ist.ac.at/ IST-REx-ID: 8563)
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Austrian Science Fund (I02072 & I03713)
- Jozsef Csicsvari
Swiss National Science Foundation
- Philipp Schoenenberger
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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Animal experimentation: All procedures involving experimental animals were carried out inaccordance with Austrian (Austrian federal Law for experiments with liveanimals) animal law under a project license (BMBWF-66.018/0015-WF/V/3b/2014, BMBWF-66.018/0018-WF/V/3b/2019) approved by the Austrian FederalScience Ministry (BMWFW).
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© 2020, Gridchyn et al.
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Optogenetic inhibition-mediated activity-dependent modification of CA1 pyramidal-interneuron connections during behavior
eLife 9:e61106.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61106
