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Selection of distinct populations of dentate granule cells in response to inputs as a mechanism for pattern separation in mice

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authors

  • Deng, W.
  • Mayford, Mark
  • Gage, F. H.

publication date

  • March 2013

journal

  • Elife  Journal

abstract

  • The hippocampus is critical for episodic memory and computational studies have predicted specific functions for each hippocampal subregion. Particularly, the dentate gyrus (DG) is hypothesized to perform pattern separation by forming distinct representations of similar inputs. How pattern separation is achieved by the DG remains largely unclear. By examining neuronal activities at a population level, we revealed that, unlike CA1 neuron populations, dentate granule cell (DGC) ensembles activated by learning were not preferentially reactivated by memory recall. Moreover, when mice encountered an environment to which they had not been previously exposed, a novel DGC population-rather than the previously activated DGC ensembles that responded to past events-was selected to represent the new environmental inputs. This selection of a novel responsive DGC population could be triggered by small changes in environmental inputs. Therefore, selecting distinct DGC populations to represent similar but not identical inputs is a mechanism for pattern separation. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00312.001.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Brain Mapping
  • CA1 Region, Hippocampal
  • Conditioning (Psychology)
  • Cues
  • Dentate Gyrus
  • Environment
  • Fear
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • Genes, Reporter
  • Memory
  • Memory, Episodic
  • Mental Recall
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Neural Pathways
  • Neurons
  • Pattern Recognition, Physiological
  • Time Factors
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3602954

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 2050-084X

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.7554/eLife.00312

PubMed ID

  • 23538967
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Additional Document Info

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  • e00312

volume

  • 2

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