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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 16, 220-228, Copyright © 1996 by Society for Neuroscience

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Persistent dentate granule cell hyperexcitability after neonatal infection with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus

BD Pearce, SC Steffensen, AD Paoletti, SJ Henriksen and MJ Buchmeier
Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.

Infection of neonatal Lewis rats with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) produces distinct retinal, cerebellar, and hippocampal neuropathology. To understand the neurophysiological consequences of LCMV-induced hippocampal pathology, we studied evoked monosynaptic potentials and electro-encephalographic (EEG) activity in the dentate gyrus and CA1 and CA3 subfields of the hippocampus in vivo. Lewis rats were inoculated intracerebrally with LCMV at postnatal day 4. In rats studied 84-107 d postinfection, virus was cleared from the dentate gyrus and the number of dentate granule cells was decreased by 70%. No viral antigen or cell loss was apparent in CA1 or CA3. The hippocampal EEG of LCMV-infected rats 84-102 d postinfection was dominated by continuous theta. Although evoked potentials elicited in CA1 and CA3 by monosynaptic afferent stimulation revealed no differences between sham- and LCMV-infected rats, there was a site-specific dissociation of synaptic [population excitatory postsynaptic potential (pEPSP)] and cellular (population spike) responses and a suppression of GABA- mediated recurrent inhibition in the dentate gyrus of LCMV-infected rats. These findings indicate that GABA-mediated inhibition was markedly decreased in LCMV-infected rats. In support of this, parvalbumin-immunoreactive cell bodies and neuronal processes were decreased in LCMV-infected rats, suggesting that a subpopulation of GABA interneurons was affected. These findings indicate that abnormalities in synaptic function persist after clearance of infectious virus from the central nervous system and suggest that decreased inhibition subsequent to pathological sequence in a subpopulation of GABA interneurons may be implicated in the hyperexcitability of dentate granule cells.

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