A Feedforward Inhibitory Circuit Mediates Lateral Refinement of Sensory Representation in Upper Layer 2/3 of Mouse Primary Auditory Cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 41, 2014, Pages 13670-13683

  Li, Ling Yun ^a   Ji, Xu Ying ^a,c   Liang, Feixue ^a,c   Li, Ya Tang ^a   Xiao, Zhongju ^c   Tao, Huizhong W ^a,b   Zhang, Li I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Excitatory Inhibitory balance; Inhibitory neuron; Lateral inhibition; Surround suppression; Tonal receptive field; Whole Cell recording

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; C57BL MOUSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARVALBUMINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSATION; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 84923513101     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1516-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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