Targeted proteoform mapping uncovers specific Neurexin-3 variants required for dendritic inhibition

D Hauser, K Behr, K Konno, D Schreiner, A Schmidt… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
The diversification of cell adhesion molecules by alternative splicing is proposed to underlie
molecular codes for neuronal wiring. Transcriptomic approaches mapped detailed cell-type …

Pharmacological signature and target specificity of inhibitory circuits formed by martinotti cells in the mouse barrel cortex

C Donato, DB Victorino, C Cabezas… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
In the neocortex, fast synaptic inhibition orchestrates both spontaneous and sensory-evoked
activity. GABAergic interneurons (INs) inhibit pyramidal neurons (PNs) directly, modulating …

T-type Ca2+ channels mediate a critical period of plasticity in adult-born granule cells

WM Kennedy, JC Gonzalez, H Lee… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Adult-born granule cells (abGCs) exhibit a transient period of elevated synaptic plasticity that
plays an important role in hippocampal function. Various mechanisms have been implicated …

Interrogating the function of GABAA receptors in the brain with optogenetic pharmacology

RH Kramer, R Rajappa - Current Opinion in Pharmacology, 2022 - Elsevier
To better understand neural circuits and behavior, microbial opsins have been developed as
optogenetic tools for stimulating or inhibiting action potentials with high temporal and spatial …

Neuroligin‐2 controls the establishment of fast GABAergic transmission in adult‐born granule cells

AI Groisman, A Aguilar‐Arredondo, D Giacomini… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
GABAergic inhibition is critical for the precision of neuronal spiking and the homeostatic
regulation of network activity in the brain. Adult neurogenesis challenges network …

Region and layer-specific expression of GABAA receptor isoforms and KCC2 in developing cortex

K Zavalin, A Hassan, Y Zhang, Z Khera… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) type A receptors (GABAARs) are ligand-gated Cl-
channels that mediate the bulk of inhibitory neurotransmission in the mature CNS and are …

Robust and consistent measures of pattern separation based on information theory and demonstrated in the dentate gyrus

AD Bird, H Cuntz, P Jedlicka - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Pattern separation is a valuable computational function performed by neuronal circuits, such
as the dentate gyrus, where dissimilarity between inputs is increased, reducing noise and …

Bidirectional plasticity of GABAergic tonic inhibition in hippocampal somatostatin-and parvalbumin-containing interneurons

M Wyroślak, G Dobrzański… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
GABAA receptors present in extrasynaptic areas mediate tonic inhibition in hippocampal
neurons regulating the performance of neural networks. In this study, we investigated the …

Non-linear GABAA receptors promote synaptic inhibition in developing neurons: Commentary on Lodge et al. (2021) Sparsification of AP firing in adult-born hippocampal …

K Kirmse - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology, 2022 - Springer
Synaptic inhibition is chiefly mediated by GABAA receptors (GABAARs). GABAARs form
pentameric anion channels that typically assemble from two α, two β, and one tertiary (γ, δ, ε …

Environmental enrichment promotes sparse coding in hippocampus via increased dendritic inhibition

E Verdiyan - 2023 - edoc.unibas.ch
Environmental enrichment has been shown to improve hippocampus-dependent spatial
learning and memory. However, how enrichment influences hippocampal network activity …