Inhibitory neurons: vip cells hit the brake on inhibition

Carsten K Pfeffer

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.001

Inhibitory neurons: vip cells hit the brake on inhibition

Curr Biol. 2014 Jan 6;24(1):R18-R20. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.001.

Author

Carsten K Pfeffer¹

Affiliation

¹ Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior, Neurobiology Section and Department of Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0634, USA. Electronic address: cpfeffer10@gmail.com.

PMID: 24405670
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.001

Abstract

Recent studies on vasoactive intestinal peptide-expressing inhibitory neurons in the barrel and auditory cortices of the mouse brain have shown that they form a disinhibitory circuitry that affects the excitability of pyramidal neurons.

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MeSH terms

Afferent Pathways / physiology*
Animals
Cerebral Cortex / cytology*
Cerebral Cortex / physiology*
Female
Interneurons / physiology*
Male
Nerve Net / physiology*
Neural Inhibition / physiology*
Somatosensory Cortex / cytology*