Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Aberrant survival of hippocampal Cajal-Retzius cells leads to memory deficits, gamma rhythmopathies and susceptibility to seizures in adult mice

  • Martina Riva,
  • Stéphanie Moriceau,
  • Annunziato Morabito,
  • Elena Dossi,
  • Candela Sanchez-Bellot,
  • Patrick Azzam,
  • Andrea Navas-Olive,
  • Beatriz Gal,
  • Francesco Dori,
  • Elena Cid,
  • Fanny Ledonne,
  • Sabrina David,
  • Fabrice Trovero,
  • Magali Bartolomucci,
  • Eva Coppola,
  • Nelson Rebola,
  • Antoine Depaulis,
  • Nathalie Rouach,
  • Liset Menendez de la Prida,
  • Franck Oury,
  • Alessandra Pierani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37249-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Cajal-Retzius neurons number drastically decreases during postnatal life. Here, authors show that their programmed death is required for the construction of functional hippocampal circuits and memory with aberrant survival leading to gamma rhythmopathies and susceptibility to seizures.