title: Entorhinal stellate cells show preferred spike phase-locking to theta inputs that is enhanced by correlations in synaptic activity.
abstract: In active networks, excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs generate membrane voltage fluctuations that drive spike activity in a probabilistic manner. Despite this, some cells in vivo show a strong propensity to precisely lock to the local field potential and maintain a specific spike-phase relationship relative to other cells. In recordings from rat medial entorhinal cortical stellate cells, we measured spike phase-locking in response to sinusoidal "test" inputs in the presence of different forms of background membrane voltage fluctuations, generated via dynamic clamp. We find that stellate cells show strong and robust spike phase-locking to theta (4-12 Hz) inputs. This response occurs under a wide variety of background membrane voltage fluctuation conditions that include a substantial increase in overall membrane conductance. Furthermore, the IH current present in stellate cells is critical to the enhanced spike phase-locking response at theta. Finally, we show that correlations between inhibitory and excitatory conductance fluctuations, which can arise through feedback and feedforward inhibition, can substantially enhance the spike phase-locking response. The enhancement in locking is a result of a selective reduction in the size of low-frequency membrane voltage fluctuations due to cancellation of inhibitory and excitatory current fluctuations with correlations. Hence, our results demonstrate that stellate cells have a strong preference for spike phase-locking to theta band inputs and that the absolute magnitude of locking to theta can be modulated by the properties of background membrane voltage fluctuations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, Brain Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112, USA. f.fernandez@utah.edu
authors.forename: Fernando R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Fernandez
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Malerba
authors.forename: Paul C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Bressloff
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001703:Biophysics; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D018728:Entorhinal Cortex / Q000166:cytology*; D005260:Female; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D008959:Models, Neurological; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009433:Neural Inhibition; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D051381:Rats; D020318:Rats, Long-Evans; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology*; D013826:Theta Rhythm / Q000502:physiology*
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