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- Title
Spatiotemporal network coding of physiological mossy fiber inputs by the cerebellar granular layer.
- Authors
Sudhakar, Shyam Kumar; Hong, Sungho; Raikov, Ivan; Publio, Rodrigo; Lang, Claus; Close, Thomas; Guo, Daqing; Negrello, Mario; De Schutter, Erik
- Abstract
The granular layer, which mainly consists of granule and Golgi cells, is the first stage of the cerebellar cortex and processes spatiotemporal information transmitted by mossy fiber inputs with a wide variety of firing patterns. To study its dynamics at multiple time scales in response to inputs approximating real spatiotemporal patterns, we constructed a large-scale 3D network model of the granular layer. Patterned mossy fiber activity induces rhythmic Golgi cell activity that is synchronized by shared parallel fiber input and by gap junctions. This leads to long distance synchrony of Golgi cells along the transverse axis, powerfully regulating granule cell firing by imposing inhibition during a specific time window. The essential network mechanisms, including tunable Golgi cell oscillations, on-beam inhibition and NMDA receptors causing first winner keeps winning of granule cells, illustrate how fundamental properties of the granule layer operate in tandem to produce (1) well timed and spatially bound output, (2) a wide dynamic range of granule cell firing and (3) transient and coherent gating oscillations. These results substantially enrich our understanding of granule cell layer processing, which seems to promote spatial group selection of granule cell activity as a function of timing of mossy fiber input.
- Subjects
SPATIOTEMPORAL processes; LINEAR network coding; GOLGI apparatus; GRANULE cells; CEREBELLAR cortex
- Publication
PLoS Computational Biology, 2017, Vol 13, Issue 9, p1
- ISSN
1553-734X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005754