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Keyword: perineuronal nets ×Clear all

5 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. Unchecked“Finally, we show that PNN removal in entorhinal cortex distorted spatial representations in downstream hippocampal neurons.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Spatial coding dysfunction and network instability in the aging medial entorhinal cortex

   Herber, Pratt, Shea, Villeda and Giocomo · Nature Communications · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“In aged grid cells, we observed impaired stabilization of context-specific spatial firing, correlated with spatial memory deficits.”
   2. Unchecked“Additionally, aged grid networks shifted firing patterns often, but with poor alignment to context changes.”
   3. Unchecked“In these same mice, we identified 458 genes differentially expressed with age in MEC, 61 of which had expression correlated with spatial coding quality.”