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Functional network topography of the medial entorhinal cortex

2022; National Academy of Sciences; Volume: 119; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1073/pnas.2121655119

1091-6490

Horst A. Obenhaus, Weijian Zong, R. Irene Jacobsen, Tobias Rose, Flavio Donato, Liangyi Chen, Heping Cheng, Tobias Bonhoeffer, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser,

Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) creates a map of local space, based on the firing patterns of grid, head-direction (HD), border, and object-vector (OV) cells. How these cell types are organized anatomically is debated. In-depth analysis of this question requires collection of precise anatomical and activity data across large populations of neurons during unrestrained behavior, which neither electrophysiological nor previous imaging methods fully afford. Here, we examined the topographic arrangement of spatially modulated neurons in the superficial layers of MEC and adjacent parasubiculum using miniaturized, portable two-photon microscopes, which allow mice to roam freely in open fields. Grid cells exhibited low levels of co-occurrence with OV cells and clustered anatomically, while border, HD, and OV cells tended to intermingle. These data suggest that grid cell networks might be largely distinct from those of border, HD, and OV cells and that grid cells exhibit strong coupling among themselves but weaker links to other cell types.