Cross-Modality Sharpening of Visual Cortical Processing through Layer-1-Mediated Inhibition and Disinhibition

Neuron

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1031-1045

  Ibrahim, Leena A ^a,b   Mesik, Lukas ^a,b   Ji, Xu ying ^a   Fang, Qi ^a,b   Li, Hai fu ^a   Li, Ya tang ^a   Zingg, Brian ^a,b   Zhang, Li I ^a   Tao, Huizhong Whit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Ca2+ imaging; Cross modal interaction; In vivo patch clamp recording; Interneuron; Primary visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRING RATE; INNERVATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; HEARING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; ORIENTATION; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; MICE; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; OPTOGENETICS; ORIENTATION; PARVALBUMINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84960410939     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.01.027     Document Type: Article

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