Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

TRPV1 regulates excitatory innervation of OLM neurons in the hippocampus

  • Joaquin I. Hurtado-Zavala,
  • Binu Ramachandran,
  • Saheeb Ahmed,
  • Rashi Halder,
  • Christiane Bolleyer,
  • Ankit Awasthi,
  • Markus A. Stahlberg,
  • Robin J. Wagener,
  • Kristin Anderson,
  • Ryan M. Drenan,
  • Henry A. Lester,
  • Julie M. Miwa,
  • Jochen F. Staiger,
  • Andre Fischer,
  • Camin Dean

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15878
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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The role of TRPV1 in the CNS is not fully understood. Here the authors show that TRPV1 is expressed specifically in somatostatin-positive OLM interneurons of the hippocampus, where it promotes excitatory innervation of these cells.