Previous study revealed that bursting activity generated by a variety of means in slices of piriform cortex induces persistent epileptiform EPSPs in superficial pyramidal cells by an NMDA-dependent process. The present study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that the observed epileptiform EPSPs in superficial pyramidal cells are driven by deep cells. This hypothesis was suggested by recent ...

Abstract The piriform cortex (PC) is a major cortical processing center for the sense of smell that receives direct inputs from olfactory bulb. In mice, PC consists three neuronal layers, which are populated by cells with distinct developmental origins. One origin neurons pool Dbx1-expressing neural progenitors located in ventral pallium at pallial-subpallial boundary. Since precise mechanisms ...

In this study the role of adenosine A1 receptors of the CA1 region of hippocampus on piriform cortex–kindled seizures was investigated in rats. Obtained results showed that in kindled animals, bilateral microinjection of N6–cyclohexyladenosine (CHA), an adenosine A1 receptor agonist, at doses of 10 and 100 mM into the hippocampal CA1 region decreased the afterdischarge duration (ADD), stage 5 s...

The piriform cortex (PCX) is a trilaminar paleocortex that is of interest for its role in odor coding and as a model for studying general principles of cortical sensory processing. While the structure of the mature PCX has been well characterized, its development is poorly understood. Notably, the kinetics as well as the cellular and morphological basis of the postnatal events that shape the PC...

How are the responses to distinct chemical features integrated to form an olfactory perceptual object? In this issue of Neuron, Davison and Ehlers show that individual piriform cortex neurons receive convergent input from up to 10% of main olfactory bulb glomeruli and are activated by specific spatial patterns of coactive glomeruli.

Suppression of depolarizing postsynaptic potentials and isolated GABA-A receptor-mediated fast inhibitory postsynaptic potentials by the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor agonist, oxotremorine-M (10 microM), was investigated in adult and immature (P14-P30) rat piriform cortical (PC) slices using intracellular recording. Depolarizing postsynaptic potentials evoked by layers II-III stimulation un...

In this study, we have characterized slow and fast oscillations at several stages of olfactory processing under light and deep ketamine/xylazine anesthesia in the albino rat. While monitoring the animal's respiration, we also obtained field potentials from the olfactory bulb and piriform (olfactory) cortex and simultaneously recorded membrane potentials in piriform cortex pyramidal cells. Our r...