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The medial dendrites (MDs) of granule cells (GCs) receive spatial information through the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) from the entorhinal cortex in the rat hippocampus while the distal dendrites (DDs) of GCs receive non-spatial information (sensory inputs) through the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC). However, it is unclear how information processing through the two pathways is managed in GCs. In this study, we investigated associative information processing between two independent inputs to MDs and DDs. First, in physiological experiments, to compare response characteristics between MDs and DDs, electrical stimuli comprising five pulses were applied to the MPP or LPP in rat hippocampal slices. These stimuli transiently decreased the excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) of successive input pulses to MDs, whereas EPSPs to DDs showed sustained responses. Next, in computational experiments using a local network model obtained by fitting of the physiological experimental data, we compared associative information processing between DDs and MDs. The results showed that the temporal pattern sensitivity for burst inputs to MDs depended on the frequency of the random pulse inputs applied to DDs. On the other hand, with lateral inhibition to GCs from interneurons, the temporal pattern sensitivity for burst inputs to MDs was enhanced or tuned up according to the frequency of the random pulse inputs to the other cells. Thus, our results suggest that the temporal pattern sensitivity of spatial information depends on the non-spatial inputs to GCs.
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Nakajima, N., Kamijo, T., Hayakawa, H. et al. Modification of temporal pattern sensitivity for inputs from medial entorhinal cortex by lateral inputs in hippocampal granule cells. Cogn Neurodyn (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-023-09964-w
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