Martinotti cells: community organizers

Christine K Lee; John R Huguenard

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.03.003

Martinotti cells: community organizers

Neuron. 2011 Mar 24;69(6):1042-5. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.03.003.

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Christine K Lee¹, John R Huguenard

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¹ Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Abstract

The specificity of connections made by inhibitory interneurons in the neocortex is not well understood. In this issue of Neuron, Fino and Yuste (2011) use an enhanced version of two-photon glutamate uncaging, which preserves inhibitory synaptic transmission, to demonstrate that somatostatin-positive interneurons form densely convergent connections onto pyramidal cells in layer 2/3 of mouse frontal cortex.

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