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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Perineuronal nets stabilize the grid cell network

   Christensen, Lensjø, Lepperød et al. · Nature Communications · 2021

   The paper reports that removing perineuronal nets lowers inhibitory activity and destabilises grid cell maps, with knock-on distortion of hippocampal spatial representations, suggesting the nets stabilise the grid network.

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   1. UncheckedIn animals with disrupted perineuronal nets, a novel arena scrambled grid cell timing relationships and the stored map of a familiar arena.“Furthermore, in animals with disrupted PNNs, exposure to a novel arena corrupted the spatiotemporal relationships within grid cell modules, and the stored representations of a familiar arena.”
   2. UncheckedRemoving perineuronal nets in the entorhinal cortex distorted spatial representations in downstream hippocampal neurons, according to the paper.“Finally, we show that PNN removal in entorhinal cortex distorted spatial representations in downstream hippocampal neurons.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Recurrent inhibitory circuitry as a mechanism for grid formation

   Couey, Witoelar, Zhang et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

   Recordings from rat brain slices showed stellate cells connect mainly via inhibitory interneurons, and a model network suggested this inhibition could be enough to produce grid-cell firing.

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   1. UncheckedIn rat entorhinal slices, stellate cells in layer II were mainly linked to each other through inhibitory interneurons, across more than 600 recorded neuron pairs.“Here we report recordings from more than 600 neuron pairs in rat entorhinal slices, demonstrating that stellate cells, the principal cell type in the layer II grid network, are mainly interconnected via inhibitory interneurons.”
   2. UncheckedIn a model attractor network, stable grid-cell firing patterns can arise from a simple network in which cells inhibit one another through interneurons.“Using a model attractor network, we demonstrate that stable grid firing can emerge from a simple recurrent inhibitory network.”