The Entorhinal Cortical Alvear Pathway Differentially Excites Pyramidal Cells and Interneuron Subtypes in Hippocampal CA1

Bell, Delong, Goswamee, McQuiston · Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991) · 2021 · neuroscience · 10.1093/cercor/bhaa359 · record Bell2021-the-entorhinal-cortical-alvear-pathway-diffe
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alvear entorhinal hippocampal CA1 interneuron PV VIP GIN pyramidal EPSP IPSC theta feedforward inhibition excitation monosynaptic disynaptic optogenetic stimulation SLM glutamate TTX release probability transgenic tau rhythm dendrite axon synaptic delay suprathreshold subthreshold Glutamatergic alvear terminals in stratum oriens excite local interneurons, which in turn hyperpolarize CA1 pyramidal cells through GABA-A receptors, so the net effect of the pathway on pyramidal cells is inhibition rather than excitation Rhythmic burst firing of alvear-driven PV perisomatic interneurons imposes rhythmic perisomatic inhibition on pyramidal cells, which the authors propose as a contribution to theta rhythm generation alvear pathway temporo-ammonic (TA) pathway IPSC amplitudes burst action potential frequencies Shapiro-Wilk normality test Shapiro–Wilk test repeated measures ANOVA repeated measures one-way ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc tests one-sample t-test one sample t -tests two-way ANOVA two-way ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc tests p-value standard error of the mean standard error of the mean (SEM) Friedman test nonparametric tests the appropriate nonparametric tests action potential frequency electrophysiology

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object_of_studythe alvear pathway from entorhinal cortex to hippocampal CA1 - a major excitatory input whose physiological impact was unknown
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research_questionwhat the synapses this pathway makes in the deep layers actually do, since their existence was known from anatomy and never tested
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contributionthe pathway cannot drive pyramidal cells to fire but does drive interneurons, unequally by subtype, so its effect on the region is feedforward inhibition
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phenomenonentorhinal alvear pathway input to hippocampal CA1
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mechanismsthe excitatory input onto pyramidal cells is monosynaptic but too weak to reach threshold even under theta burst stimulation
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mechanismswhile the same input drives interneurons to fire, and the inhibition arriving at PC is therefore disynaptic
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mechanismswith parvalbumin cells doing more than half of it, shown by silencing them during the stimulation
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mechanismsand both sets of synapses facilitating, which marks them as low release probability
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limitationsMost recorded stratum oriens interneurons could not be anatomically classified because biocytin fills were insufficient.
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what this limits: every result reported by interneuron type: NONE OF THESE 13 NEURONS HAD SUFFICIENT AXONAL FILL TO PERMIT ANATOMICAL IDENTIFICATION
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limitationsWhether the theta-coherent MEC layer 2 pyramidal cells actually contribute to the alvear pathway is unknown, weakening the proposed link to theta rhythm generation.
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what this limits: the link between the theta-coherent MEC L2 pyramidal cells and this pathway: IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER THESE MEC L2 PCs CONTRIBUTE TO THE ALVEAR PATHWAY
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limitationsThe relative strength of the temporo-ammonic and alvear pathways cannot be settled from earlier work.
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what this limits: any ranking of the two pathways by strength: A DIRECT COMPARISON BETWEEN THE STRENGTHS OF TA AND ALVEAR INPUTS WAS NOT POSSIBLE WITH PREVIOUS STUDIES
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limitationswhether the recently identified projection neurons that fire with theta actually contribute to this pathway is unknown
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what this limits: the same scope as limitations[1] - the calbindin-expressing projection neurons whose firing correlates with theta are not shown to contribute here
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limitationsthe region studied was chosen by which transgenic mice existed rather than by the question
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what this limits: why this region and not another: THE MEC WAS CHOSEN AS THE VIRAL EXPRESSION TARGET BY VIRTUE OF THE available transgenic line, so the anatomy studied follows the reagent
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limitationsand the comparison with the other pathway cannot be made against the earlier literature, because the standard stimulation site activates both plus a third input
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what this limits: the same scope as limitations[2], with the reason: SLM STIMULATION POTENTIALLY ACTIVATES ALVEAR INPUTS, so the earlier comparison does not isolate the pathway it names
limitations[5]1.0the tagger's words
transfersa channel expressed in one projection population, which is what makes a single pathway separable from the three that share its target layer
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transfersthe driver lines that decide which region can be targeted - and here, which region was studied
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transfersthe reported distribution of tau across the two pathways, used to argue the studied one matters clinically
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transferstheta burst stimulation as the physiological input pattern, rather than single shocks
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controlsthe light stimulus confined to the two deep layers rather than delivered to the whole slice
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eliminates: the responses arising from the same axons' terminals in the distal layer, which the pathway also reaches · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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controlssodium channel blockade followed by potassium channel blockade, applied to both response types
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eliminates: a monosynaptic origin for the inhibitory response - 4-AP could not rescue the IPSCs inhibited by TTX, so inhibitory synaptic transmission driven by alvear input stimulation was NOT monosynaptic · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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controlssynaptic delay measured separately for the two postsynaptic populations
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eliminates: the reading that the interneuron responses are relayed rather than direct, since their delay is shorter than the pyramidal one · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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controlspost hoc anatomical reconstruction of the recorded interneurons
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eliminates: the possibility that the recorded cells were not the horizontally oriented population the pathway is claimed to engage · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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controlsoptogenetic silencing of parvalbumin interneurons during the same stimulation
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eliminates: attributing the whole inhibitory response to the subtype merely because it fires most - the silencing measures its share at more than half · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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sensesA MAJOR INPUT PATHWAY WITH NO PHYSIOLOGY ATTACHED TO IT: the alvear pathway is a MAJOR EXCITATORY INPUT to hippocampal CA1, YET NOTHING IS KNOWN ABOUT ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACT
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sensesand it is not a minor route - in rodent it CARRIES MOST of the entorhinal input to dorsal CA1, and its effect on the postsynaptic neurons HAS NOT, TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, BEEN REPORTED
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senseswith the gap dated - the synaptic boutons were described in 1996 and THE PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF THE SYNAPSES HAS NOT BEEN INVESTIGATED since
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sensesTHE REGION STUDIED WAS CHOSEN BY THE TOOLS THAT EXISTED: the medial entorhinal cortex was chosen as the viral expression target BY VIRTUE OF THE TRANSGENIC MICE AVAILABLE
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sensesA DISAGREEMENT DIVIDED BY PREPARATION: SOME GROUPS observed monosynaptic suprathreshold activation after stimulation in vivo, WHEREAS OTHER GROUPS observed only subthreshold events
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sensesand the in vitro literature does not disagree with itself at all - ex vivo stimulation has CONSISTENTLY been found to give subthreshold responses, so the preparation is what the disagreement turns on
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sensesTHE COMPARISON EVERYONE WOULD WANT COULD NOT BE MADE BEFORE, AND THE PAPER SAYS WHY: stimulating the distal layer activates the other pathway, this pathway's own distal terminals, AND a thalamic input, so A DIRECT COMPARISON BETWEEN THE STRENGTHS OF THE TWO WAS NOT POSSIBLE WITH PREVIOUS STUDIES
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sensesTHE SAME TARGET REGION, TWO INPUTS, DIFFERENT INTERNEURON SUBSETS: parvalbumin cells produce LITTLE TO NO RESPONSE to distal-layer stimulation and fire strongly to this one, so the two inputs ACTIVATE DIFFERENT SUBSETS OF INTERNEURONS
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sensesand the selectivity was already known for the other pathway - specific subsets can be POTENTLY ACTIVATED while others are ONLY WEAKLY AFFECTED OR NOT AFFECTED AT ALL
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sensesNOT ALL SUBTYPES ARE EQUALLY AFFECTED: parvalbumin cells fire at higher frequencies than the other two classes, and the responsive cells span several morphological subtypes within each class
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sensesTHE SAME PHARMACOLOGICAL TEST GIVES OPPOSITE ANSWERS FOR THE TWO RESPONSE TYPES: the potassium channel blocker rescues the excitatory response and CANNOT rescue the inhibitory one, which is what makes one monosynaptic and the other disynaptic
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senseswith a geometric argument doing the work the pharmacology cannot - the light was confined to the deep layers, so the terminals there MUST be the source and not the distal ones
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sensesand a delay difference used the same way - the interneuron delay is SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER than the pyramidal one, which is the wrong direction for a relayed response
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sensesMORE THAN HALF THE INHIBITION MEASURED RATHER THAN ATTRIBUTED: silencing one interneuron class during the same stimulation removed GREATER THAN 50% of the response amplitude
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sensesAND THE UNTESTED PATHWAY IS THE VULNERABLE ONE: tau accumulates in the terminals of THIS pathway BUT NOT the other, so the input nobody had recorded from may be the one that fails first in Alzheimer's disease
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senseswith an open question left open - it is UNKNOWN whether the projection neurons whose firing tracks theta contribute to this pathway at all
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alternativesclaim_type: mechanism
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alternativesmethod: optogenetic activation confined to one layer, so that the responses cannot come from the same axons' terminals elsewhere
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a second reading DIFFERING from the recorded value. Recorded: electrophysiology — note: a second reading, verbatim-verified, disagreeing with the value on the record. Not applied - a person decides.
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alternativesphenomenon: two anatomically separate entorhinal inputs converging on the same target region by different routes
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a second reading DIFFERING from the recorded value. Recorded: entorhinal alvear pathway input to hippocampal CA1 — note: a second reading, verbatim-verified, disagreeing with the value on the record. Not applied - a person decides.
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claim_relationsextends → Milstein et al. (2015)
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claim_relationsextends → Milstein et al. (2015)
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claim_relationssupports → feedforward inhibition as the principal effect of entorhinal input on CA1 pyramidal cells
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claim_relationscontradicts → the assumption that the two entorhinal pathways engage the same interneuron population
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differs in: alvear pathway terminals in the SO appear to be capable of activating different subsets of interneurons relative to TA inputs
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claim_relationsreconciles → the disagreement about whether entorhinal stimulation drives CA1 pyramidal cells, by noting the in vitro literature is consistent where the in vivo one is not
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differs in: Quotation withheld of CA1 PCs
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claim_relationscritiques → earlier comparisons of the two pathways' strengths, which stimulated a site that activates three inputs at once
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differs in: THE AXIS IS WHAT THE STIMULATION SITE ACTUALLY ACTIVATES. 'These data may seem to suggest that the TA pathway input is stronger than the alvear pathway ... However, STIMULATION IN THE SLM WOULD ACTIVATE MORE THAN JUST TA SYNAPTIC TERMINALS.' The earlier comparison is not disputed as a measurement - it is disputed as an ATTRIBUTION, because the electrode reaches more than the pathway it was taken to test.
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claim_relationspredicts → that this pathway contributes to theta rhythm generation through perisomatic interneurons
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claim_relationssupports → the early vulnerability of this specific input in Alzheimer's disease, from the reported tau distribution
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concept_edgespyramidal —contrasted-with→ interneuron
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strength of the relation: 1 · note: the inputs land on BOTH, which is why the question of what the pathway does could not be answered from anatomy alone Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span shown is the abstract opening; the pyramidal/interneuron contrast is elsewhere.
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concept_edgesPV —contrasted-with→ VIP
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strength of the relation: 1 · note: more than 70% of PV and VIP cells showed responses and less than 20% of the third class
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concept_edgesstimulation —causes→ suprathreshold
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strength of the relation: 1 Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span reports suprathreshold activation following stimulation in some studies; causes is loose.
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concept_edgesPV —distinct-from→ SLM
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strength of the relation: 1 · note: THE SAME TARGET, TWO INPUTS, DIFFERENT INTERNEURON SUBSETS - PV cells produce LITTLE TO NO RESPONSE to distal-layer stimulation and fire strongly to this one Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but PV interneurons produce little or no response to SLM STIMULATION; distinct-from 'SLM' is loose.
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concept_edgesalvear —causes→ interneuron
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strength of the relation: 1 Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span says alvear terminals appear capable of activating interneuron subsets; causes is loose.
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concept_edgesPV —contrasted-with→ GIN
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strength of the relation: 1 · note: NOT ALL SUBTYPES EQUALLY AFFECTED - PV cells fire at higher frequencies than the other two classes
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concept_edgestheta —causes→ excitation
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strength of the relation: 1 Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span says theta-burst stimulation elicited excitation; 'theta' names the stimulation pattern.
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concept_edgesIPSC —operationalised-as→ inhibition
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strength of the relation: 1 Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but IPSCs are a measure of inhibition; operationalised-as is loose.
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concept_edgesPV —causes→ IPSC
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strength of the relation: 1 · note: MORE THAN HALF THE INHIBITION MEASURED RATHER THAN ATTRIBUTED - silencing one class during the same stimulation removed GREATER THAN 50% of the response amplitude
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concept_edgesEPSP —distinct-from→ suprathreshold
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strength of the relation: 1 · note: subthreshold responses in pyramidal cells EVEN UNDER ROBUST THETA BURST STIMULATION, against suprathreshold responses in the interneurons
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concept_edgesGIN —is-a→ interneuron
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strength of the relation: 1 · note: and the conclusion states the asymmetry plainly - the subset activated here APPEARS TO BE DIFFERENT from those activated by the other pathway Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span shown does not name GIN cells.
also in: GIN · interneuron
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content_tagsShapiro-Wilk normality test
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content_tagsrepeated measures ANOVA
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content_tagsone-sample t-test
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content_tagsnonparametric tests
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content_tagsaction potential frequency
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content_tagsTheta burst activation of the alvear pathway never drove CA1 pyramidal cells to spike; the inputs produced only subthreshold EPSPs.
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content_tagsThe same alvear stimulation that fails to spike pyramidal cells does excite interneurons, which then inhibit the pyramidal cells disynaptically.
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content_tagsParvalbumin interneurons are the most responsive target of the alvear input, firing at higher rates than VIP or somatostatin (GIN) interneurons.
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content_tagsInterneuron subtypes differ sharply in whether they respond at all, with O-LM/GIN cells largely unresponsive.
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content_tagsOptogenetically silencing PV interneurons removed more than half of the alvear-driven inhibitory current in pyramidal cells, showing PV cells carry most of the feedforward inhibition.
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content_tagsAlvear inputs onto CA1 pyramidal basal dendrites showed a low probability of transmitter release.
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content_tagsThe alvear pathway appears to affect CA1 mainly through feedforward inhibition via select interneuron subtypes.
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content_tagsA MAJOR INPUT PATHWAY WITH NO PHYSIOLOGY ATTACHED TO IT: a MAJOR EXCITATORY INPUT to hippocampal CA1, YET NOTHING IS KNOWN ABOUT ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACT
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content_tagsand it is not a minor route - in rodent it CARRIES MOST of the entorhinal input to dorsal CA1, and its effect HAS NOT, TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, BEEN REPORTED
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content_tagswith the gap dated - the synaptic boutons were described in 1996 and THE PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF THE SYNAPSES IN THE SO HAS NOT BEEN INVESTIGATED
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content_tagsTHE REGION STUDIED WAS CHOSEN BY THE TOOLS THAT EXISTED: the target was chosen BY VIRTUE OF THE TRANSGENIC MICE AVAILABLE
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content_tagsA DISAGREEMENT DIVIDED BY PREPARATION: SOME GROUPS observed monosynaptic suprathreshold activation in vivo, WHEREAS OTHER GROUPS observed only subthreshold events
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content_tagswhether in vivo stimulation excites CA1 pyramidal cells above threshold is disputed, while ex vivo stimulation has consistently given subthreshold responses
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content_tagsTHE COMPARISON EVERYONE WOULD WANT COULD NOT BE MADE BEFORE: stimulating the distal layer activates three inputs at once, so A DIRECT COMPARISON BETWEEN THE STRENGTHS OF THE TWO WAS NOT POSSIBLE WITH PREVIOUS STUDIES
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content_tagsTWO INPUTS, DIFFERENT INTERNEURON SUBSETS: PV interneurons have been demonstrated to produce LITTLE TO NO RESPONSE to SLM stimulation, and alvear pathway terminals appear capable of activating DIFFERENT SUBSETS OF INTERNEURONS relative to TA inputs
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content_tagswith the selectivity already known for the other pathway - specific subsets POTENTLY ACTIVATED while others are ONLY WEAKLY AFFECTED OR NOT AFFECTED AT ALL
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content_tagsNOT ALL SUBTYPES ARE EQUALLY AFFECTED: PV cells fire at higher frequencies than the other two classes, and the responsive cells span several morphological subtypes within each class
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content_tagsTHE SAME PHARMACOLOGICAL TEST GIVES OPPOSITE ANSWERS FOR THE TWO RESPONSE TYPES: the potassium channel blocker rescues the excitatory response and CANNOT rescue the inhibitory one
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content_tagswith a geometric argument doing what pharmacology cannot - the light was confined to the deep layers, so the terminals there MUST be the source
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content_tagsand a delay difference used the same way - the interneuron delay is SIGNIFICANTLY SHORTER than the pyramidal one
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content_tagsMORE THAN HALF THE INHIBITION MEASURED RATHER THAN ATTRIBUTED: silencing one interneuron class removed GREATER THAN 50% of the response amplitude
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content_tagssubthreshold responses in pyramidal cells EVEN UNDER ROBUST THETA BURST STIMULATION, against suprathreshold responses in the interneurons
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content_tagsAND THE UNTESTED PATHWAY IS THE VULNERABLE ONE: tau accumulates in the terminals of THIS pathway BUT NOT the other
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content_tagswith an open question left open - it is UNKNOWN whether the projection neurons whose firing tracks theta contribute to this pathway at all
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content_tagsand individual projection neurons do NOT correlate well with the population field potential but DO fire coherently with their own internal theta
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content_tagsthe two pathways' terminals look alike where it can be measured - both facilitating, both indicative of a low probability release synapse
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content_tagsand the conclusion states the asymmetry plainly - the subset activated here APPEARS TO BE DIFFERENT from those activated by the other pathway
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content_tagsalvear pathway
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content_tagstemporo-ammonic (TA) pathway
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content_tagsalvear
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content_tagsmonosynaptic
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content_tagsdisynaptic
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content_tagsrelease probability
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content_tagsIPSC amplitudes
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content_tagsburst action potential frequencies
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content_tagsstimulation
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content_tagstheta
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content_tagssynaptic delay
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content_tagsgreater than 50% — Reduction in alvear-driven inhibitory postsynaptic current in CA1 pyramidal cells when PV interneurons were optogenetically silenced
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content_tags85% / 25% / 30% — Proportion of GIN, PV and VIP interneurons respectively that gave no response at all to alvear stimulation
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content_tagsgreater than 70% / less than 20% — Fraction of PV and VIP interneurons versus O-LM cells that showed alvear excitatory synaptic responses
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content_tags41 of 49 — Pyramidal neurons that responded at all to optogenetic alvear stimulation
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content_tags17 of 28 — Responsive stratum oriens interneurons that reached spike threshold during theta burst stimulation
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content_tags16 of 37 — VIP-expressing interneurons that fired action potentials to theta burst stimulation of the alvear pathway
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content_tags39 — Total interneurons recorded with somata in CA1 stratum oriens
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content_tagsgreater than 70% ... less than 20% — the share of two interneuron classes that responded against the third - the number that turns 'drives interneurons' into 'drives these interneurons'
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content_tagsgreater than 50% — the share of the inhibitory response removed by silencing one interneuron class - a contribution measured by subtraction rather than inferred from which cells fired hardest
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content_tagsapproximately 3 ms ... approximately 2 ms — the synaptic delays of alvear inputs, supporting the monosynaptic nature of alvear inputs onto PC basal dendrites in the deep layers of hippocampal CA1
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