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Electrophysiological heterogeneity of fast-spiking interneurons: chandelier versus basket cells.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Povysheva Nadezhda V, Zaitsev Aleksey V, Gonzalez-Burgos Guillermo, Lewis David A
Abstract excerpt
In the prefrontal cortex, parvalbumin-positive inhibitory neurons play a prominent role in the neural circuitry that subserves working memory, and alterations in these neurons contribute to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Two morphologically distinct classes of parvalbumin neurons that target the perisomatic region of pyramidal neurons, chandelier cells (ChCs) and basket cells (BCs), are generally thought...
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