Specific CA3 neurons decode neural information of dentate granule cells evoked by paired-pulse stimulation in co-cultured networks

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2017 Jul:2017:3628-3631. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037643.

Abstract

CA3 and dentate gyrus (DG) neurons are cultured in two-chamber devices on multi-electrode arrays (MEAs) and connected via micro-tunnels. In order to evoke time-locked activity, paired-pulse stimulation is applied to 22 different sites and repeated 25 times in each well in 5 MEA co-cultures and results compared to CA3-CA3 and DG-DG networks homologous controls. In these hippocampal sub-regions, we focus on the mechanisms underpinning a network's ability to decode the identity of site specific stimulation from analysis of evoked network responses using a support vector machine classifier. Our results indicate that a pool of CA3 neurons is able to reliably decode the identity of DG stimulation site information.

MeSH terms

  • Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
  • Coculture Techniques
  • Dentate Gyrus*
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Hippocampus