Adult-born neurons facilitate olfactory bulb pattern separation during task engagement

© 2018, Li et al..

The rodent olfactory bulb incorporates thousands of newly generated inhibitory neurons daily throughout adulthood, but the role of adult neurogenesis in olfactory processing is not fully understood. Here we adopted a genetic method to inducibly suppress adult neurogenesis and investigated its effect on behavior and bulbar activity. Mice without young adult-born neurons (ABNs) showed normal ability in discriminating very different odorants but were impaired in fine discrimination. Furthermore, two-photon calcium imaging of mitral cells (MCs) revealed that the ensemble odor representations of similar odorants were more ambiguous in the ablation animals. This increased ambiguity was primarily due to a decrease in MC suppressive responses. Intriguingly, these deficits in MC encoding were only observed during task engagement but not passive exposure. Our results indicate that young olfactory ABNs are essential for the enhancement of MC pattern separation in a task engagement-dependent manner, potentially functioning as a gateway for top-down modulation.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

Enthalten in:

eLife - 7(2018) vom: 13. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Wankun L [VerfasserIn]
Chu, Monica W [VerfasserIn]
Wu, An [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Yusuke [VerfasserIn]
Imayoshi, Itaru [VerfasserIn]
Komiyama, Takaki [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adult neurogenesis
Adult-born neurons
Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
Glial fibrillary astrocytic protein, mouse
Inhibitory neurons
Journal Article
Mitral cells
Mouse
Neuroscience
Odor discrimination
Olfactory bulb
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 01.07.2019

Date Revised 17.08.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.7554/eLife.33006

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM281895643