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Single synaptic inputs drive high-precision action potentials in parvalbumin expressing GABA-ergic cortical neurons in vivo

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Title:Single synaptic inputs drive high-precision action potentials in parvalbumin expressing GABA-ergic cortical neurons in vivo
Creators Name:Jouhanneau, J.S., Kremkow, J. and Poulet, J.F.A.
Abstract:A defining feature of cortical layer 2/3 excitatory neurons is their sparse activity, often firing in singlets of action potentials. Local inhibitory neurons are thought to play a major role in regulating sparseness, but which cell types are recruited by single excitatory synaptic inputs is unknown. Using multiple, targeted, in vivo whole-cell recordings, we show that single EPSPs have little effect on the firing rates of excitatory neurons and somatostatin-expressing GABA-ergic inhibitory neurons but evoke precisely timed action potentials in parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory neurons. Despite a EPSP decay time of 7.8 ms, the evoked action potentials were almost completely restricted to the EPSP rising phase (~0.5 ms). Evoked parvalbumin-expressing neuron action potentials go on to inhibit the local excitatory network, thus providing a pathway for single spike evoked disynaptic inhibition which may enforce sparse and precisely timed cortical signaling.
Keywords:Action Potentials, Cerebral Cortex, GABAergic Neurons, Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Neural Inhibition, Parvalbumins, Patch-Clamp Techniques, Photons, Software, Somatostatin, Synapses, Animals, Mice
Source:Nature Communications
ISSN:2041-1723
Publisher:Nature Publishing Group
Volume:9
Number:1
Page Range:1540
Date:18 April 2018
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03995-2
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