The authors selectively target a population of hippocampal interneurons called oriens lacunosum-moleculare (OLM) cells with the Chrna2 promoter to demonstrate that these cells differentially modulate CA3 and entorhinal inputs to CA1 pyramidal cells. They also find that OLM cells receive fast cholinergic inputs, providing a plausible explanation for how nicotine affects hippocampal plasticity.
- Richardson N Leão
- Sanja Mikulovic
- Klas Kullander
