Telencephalic outputs from the medial entorhinal cortex are copied directly to the hippocampus
- University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Abstract
Complementary actions of the neocortex and the hippocampus enable encoding and long-term storage of experience dependent memories. Standard models for memory storage assume that sensory signals reach the hippocampus from superficial layers of the entorhinal cortex (EC). Deep layers of the EC on the other hand relay hippocampal outputs to the telencephalic structures including many parts of the neocortex. Here we show that cells in Layer 5a of the medial EC send a copy of their telencephalic outputs back to the CA1 region of the hippocampus. Combining cell-type specific anatomical tracing with high-throughput RNA-sequencing based projection mapping and optogenetics aided circuit mapping, we show that in the mouse brain these projections have a unique topography and target hippocampal pyramidal cells and interneurons. Our results suggest that projections of deep medial EC neurons are anatomically configured to influence the hippocampus and neocortex simultaneously and therefore lead to novel hypotheses on the functional role of the deep EC.
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On publication data and analysis scripts will be made publicly available via University of Edinburgh's Datashare service (http://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/). This is an online data repository maintained by the University. MAPseq data will be made available at NLM Sequence Read Archive BioProject.
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Wellcome Trust (211236/Z/18/Z)
- Gulsen Surmeli
Royal Society (211236/Z/18/Z)
- Gulsen Surmeli
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/M025454/1)
- Christina McClure
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 animal experiments were approved by the University of Edinburgh animal welfarecommittee and were performed under a UK Home Office project license.
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© 2022, Tsoi et al.
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Telencephalic outputs from the medial entorhinal cortex are copied directly to the hippocampus
eLife 11:e73162.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.73162
