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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 1, 2002, 22(13):5462-5472
Control of Feedforward Dendritic Inhibition by NMDA
Receptor-Dependent Spike Timing in Hippocampal Interneurons
Gianmaria
Maccaferri and
Raymond
Dingledine
Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine,
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Two putative functional populations of feedforward interneurons
with distinct spike-timing properties were identified in stratum radiatum of the CA1 rat hippocampus. Interneurons with fast (half width, <100 msec) EPSPs fired after short EPSP-spike latencies and with a high degree of temporal precision compared with cells with
slow (half width, >100 msec) EPSPs. Spike timing in fast and slow
interneurons occurred at different phases of the EPSPs of
simultaneously activated pyramidal cells. In addition, firing of fast
interneurons preceded action potentials in principal neurons, whereas
action potentials in slow interneurons could either precede or follow
firing in pyramidal cells. Temporal integration of separate inputs
leading to synaptically evoked firing was more prominent in slow than
fast interneurons. Functional diversity between the two putative
populations was abolished by the NMDA receptor (NMDAR) antagonist D-(-)-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid
(D-AP-5). The axon of both cell types was primarily
restricted to striatum radiatum or to striatum lacunosum-moleculare in
the case of slow cells, suggesting targeting of principal cell
dendrites for the majority of the cells of this study. Indeed, firing
of slow and fast interneurons generated similar unitary IPSCs (uIPSCs)
in pyramidal neurons. uIPSCs were mediated by GABAA
receptors and had in most cases small amplitudes and slow kinetics. Our
results suggest that functionally heterogeneous interneurons encode the
temporal properties of dendritic feedforward inhibition, and that
NMDARs play an essential role in shaping the integrative properties of
interneurons and in setting the timing of GABA release.
Key words:
NMDA receptor; interneuron; spike timing; inhibition; feedforward; GABAA receptor; kinetics; EPSP; dendrite; axon
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/22135462-11$05.00/0
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