Precise inhibitory microcircuit assembly of developmentally related neocortical interneurons in clusters

Developmental neuroscientists have long asked if clonally-related neurons retain functional relationships after maturation. The authors show that sparsely labelled neocortical interneurons in clusters with high possibility of clonal relation preferentially form electrical, but not chemical, synapses...

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Main Authors: Xin-Jun Zhang, Zhizhong Li, Zhi Han, Khadeejah T. Sultan, Kun Huang, Song-Hai Shi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16091
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Summary:Developmental neuroscientists have long asked if clonally-related neurons retain functional relationships after maturation. The authors show that sparsely labelled neocortical interneurons in clusters with high possibility of clonal relation preferentially form electrical, but not chemical, synapses.
ISSN:2041-1723