The mediodorsal thalamus drives feedforward inhibition in the anterior cingulate cortex via parvalbumin interneurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 5743-5753

  Delevich, Kristen ^a   Tucciarone, Jason ^a,b   Huang, Z Josh ^a   Li, Bo ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Feedforward inhibition; Medial prefrontal cortex; Mediodorsal thalamus; Parvalbumin interneuron

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; RHODOPSIN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2, MOUSE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GRHL3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; GT(ROSA)26SOR NON-CODING RNA, MOUSE; PHOTOPROTEIN; PICROTOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; FEEDFORWARD INHIBITION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; VIRUS EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CYTOLOGY; DEPENDOPARVOVIRUS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DEPENDOVIRUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GYRUS CINGULI; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PARVALBUMINS; PICROTOXIN; RHODOPSIN; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84929359412     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4565-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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