title: GABAergic somatostatin-immunoreactive neurons in the amygdala project to the entorhinal cortex.
abstract: The entorhinal cortex and other hippocampal and parahippocampal cortices are interconnected by a small number of GABAergic nonpyramidal neurons in addition to glutamatergic pyramidal cells. Since the cortical and basolateral amygdalar nuclei have cortex-like cell types and have robust projections to the entorhinal cortex, we hypothesized that a small number of amygdalar GABAergic nonpyramidal neurons might participate in amygdalo-entorhinal projections. To test this hypothesis we combined Fluorogold (FG) retrograde tract tracing with immunohistochemistry for the amygdalar nonpyramidal cell markers glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), parvalbumin (PV), somatostatin (SOM), neuropeptide Y (NPY), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), and the m2 muscarinic cholinergic receptor (M2R). Injections of FG into the rat entorhinal cortex labeled numerous neurons that were mainly located in the cortical and basolateral nuclei of the amygdala. Although most of these amygdalar FG+ neurons labeled by entorhinal injections were large pyramidal cells, 1-5% were smaller long-range nonpyramidal neurons (LRNP neurons) that expressed SOM, or both SOM and NPY. No amygdalar FG+ neurons in these cases were PV+ or VIP+. Cell counts revealed that LRNP neurons labeled by injections into the entorhinal cortex constituted about 10-20% of the total SOM+ population, and 20-40% of the total NPY population in portions of the lateral amygdalar nucleus that exhibited a high density of FG+ neurons. Sixty-two percent of amygdalar FG+/SOM+ neurons were GAD+, and 51% were M2R+. Since GABAergic projection neurons typically have low perikaryal levels of GABAergic markers, it is actually possible that most or all of the amygdalar LRNP neurons are GABAergic. Like GABAergic LRNP neurons in hippocampal/parahippocampal regions, amygdalar LRNP neurons that project to the entorhinal cortex are most likely involved in synchronizing oscillatory activity between the two regions. These oscillations could entrain synchronous firing of amygdalar and entorhinal pyramidal neurons, thus facilitating functional interactions between them, including synaptic plasticity.
authors: Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC 29208, United States. Electronic address: alexander.mcdonald@uscmed.sc.edu.
authors: A J
authors: AJ
authors: McDonald
authors: Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC 29208, United States.
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Zaric
mesh_terms: D000679:Amygdala / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002452:Cell Count; D018728:Entorhinal Cortex / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D059330:GABAergic Neurons / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D056347:Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing Techniques; D009478:Neuropeptide Y / Q000378:metabolism; D010320:Parvalbumins / Q000378:metabolism; D010784:Photomicrography; D017966:Pyramidal Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D043585:Receptor, Muscarinic M2 / Q000378:metabolism; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000378:metabolism*; D013266:Stilbamidines; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C049774:2-hydroxy-4,4'-diamidinostilbene, methanesulfonate salt; D009478:Neuropeptide Y; D010320:Parvalbumins; D043585:Receptor, Muscarinic M2; D013266:Stilbamidines; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide; D013004:Somatostatin
keywords: entorhinal cortex; long-range GABAergic neurons; nonpyramidal neurons; parasubiculum; prefrontal cortex; retrograde tract tracing
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