Feed-forward dendritic inhibition in rat hippocampal pyramidal cells studiedin vitro

Feed-forward inhibition in the hippocampal formation.

An overview of the current literature reveals a richness and complexity of anatomical, pharmacological and physiological features of the input systems to the archicortex. Evidence is cited to demonstrate that several afferent paths terminate on and directly excite hippocampal formation interneurons ("non-principal" cells) besides their contacts with pyramidal and granule cells (principal cells)...

Dendritic resonance in rat neocortical pyramidal cells.

Dendritic integration of synaptic signals is likely to be an important process by which nerve cells encode synaptic input into spike output. However, the response properties of dendrites to time-varying inputs are largely unknown. Here, I determine the transfer impedance of the apical dendrite in layer V pyramidal cells by dual whole cell patch-clamp recordings in slices of rat somatosensory co...

Enforcement of temporal fidelity in pyramidal cells by somatic feed-forward inhibition.

The temporal resolution of neuronal integration depends on the time window within which excitatory inputs summate to reach the threshold for spike generation. Here, we show that in rat hippocampal pyramidal cells this window is very narrow (less than 2 milliseconds). This narrowness results from the short delay with which disynaptic feed-forward inhibition follows monosynaptic excitation. Simul...

Postnatal development of dendritic calcium signaling in rat hippocampal pyramidal cells

Dendritic potassium channels in hippocampal pyramidal neurons.

Potassium channels located in the dendrites of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons control the shape and amplitude of back-propagating action potentials, the amplitude of excitatory postsynaptic potentials and dendritic excitability. Non-uniform gradients in the distribution of potassium channels in the dendrites make the dendritic electrical properties markedly different from those found in the ...