Hippocampal adult-born granule cells drive network activity in a mouse model of chronic temporal lobe epilepsy

F. T. Sparks, Z. Liao, W. Li, A. Grosmark, I. Soltesz and A. Losonczy ()
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F. T. Sparks: Columbia University
Z. Liao: Columbia University
W. Li: Columbia University
A. Grosmark: Columbia University
I. Soltesz: Stanford University
A. Losonczy: Columbia University

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: Abstract Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is characterized by recurrent seizures driven by synchronous neuronal activity. The reorganization of the dentate gyrus (DG) in TLE may create pathological conduction pathways for synchronous discharges in the temporal lobe, though critical microcircuit-level detail is missing from this pathophysiological intuition. In particular, the relative contribution of adult-born (abGC) and mature (mGC) granule cells to epileptiform network events remains unknown. We assess dynamics of abGCs and mGCs during interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) in mice with TLE as well as sharp-wave ripples (SPW-Rs) in healthy mice, and find that abGCs and mGCs are desynchronized and differentially recruited by IEDs compared to SPW-Rs. We introduce a neural topic model to explain these observations, and find that epileptic DG networks organize into disjoint, cell-type specific pathological ensembles in which abGCs play an outsized role. Our results characterize identified GC subpopulation dynamics in TLE, and reveal a specific contribution of abGCs to IEDs.

Date: 2020
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