Differential Receptive Field Properties of Parvalbumin and Somatostatin Inhibitory Neurons in Mouse Auditory Cortex

Li, Xiong, Ibrahim, Yuan, Tao, Zhang · Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991) · 2015 · neuroscience · 10.1093/cercor/bht417 · record Li2015-differential-receptive-field-properties-of-p
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PV SOM excitatory neurons fast-spiking trough-to-peak interval tonal receptive field characteristic frequency intensity threshold BW10 intensity selectivity index jitter two-photon cell-attached Gaussian urethane layer 2/3 layer 4 feedforward inhibition distal dendrites A1 PV neurons pool a wider range of excitatory inputs and receive stronger subthreshold drive, so more of that input crosses spike threshold, producing broad, weakly selective spike tuning SOM spiking is late mainly because the excitatory synaptic input itself arrives late, with longer synaptic integration adding to the delay Non-selective local connectivity from excitatory cells onto inhibitory (especially PV) cells pools inputs with many different preferred frequencies onto one interneuron SOM neurons bypass the direct ascending (feedforward) pathway and are instead driven through slower horizontal circuits, which is why their input is delayed characteristic frequency (CF) Bandwidth of TRF intensity selectivity index (ISI) onset latency of spike response bandwidth of spike TRF response onset latency body temperature distribution of characteristic frequencies cortical depth ANOVA One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and post hoc test post hoc test Kolmogorov-Smirnov test Kolmogorov–Smirnov test (K–S test) bootstrap standard error of the mean mean ± SE standard deviation standard deviation of first-spike timing curve fitting (Gaussian fit, coefficient of determination) σ of a Gaussian fit to the tuning curve p-value one-way analysis of variance K–S test Tamhane Bootstrap sampling electrophysiology

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limitationsurethane anaesthesia may suppress SOM cells specifically; in visual cortex their evoked rates fall about tenfold relative to the awake running state while PV rates do not
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limitationsthe Gaussian bandwidth measure fits many PV cells poorly because their tuning is plateau-shaped, and 67% fall below R squared 0.3
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controlscells whose Gaussian fit gave R-squared below 0.2 excluded from the bandwidth measure, AND the whole analysis re-run including every cell
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strength of the relation: 0.9 · note: CRITERION: the two are commonly equated, and the cited work shows PV and pyramidal waveform distributions overlap much more than assumed. elsewhere in the paper, 13% of SOM cells here also spike narrowly Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span reports a study questioning PV-FS correspondence; distinct-from overstates it.
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status: BORROWED: reported of the VISUAL cortex and cited, not measured in this paper's auditory recordings · direction on the measure: reduces · strength of the relation: 0.8 · note: SIGN: suppressive, and selectively so - about tenfold in visual cortex while PV rates are unchanged. The main scope limit on this record Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span says SOM firing is reduced under anesthesia; the endpoint 'SOM' drops 'firing'.
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strength of the relation: 0.9 · note: RE-GROUNDS another row of this record: the old span named ONE endpoint. Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but PV neurons 'CAN PROVIDE' feedforward inhibition; operationalised-as is loose.
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content_tagsParvalbumin (PV) inhibitory neurons in layer 2/3 auditory cortex have broader tonal receptive fields, lower intensity thresholds and stronger tone-evoked spiking than somatostatin (SOM) neurons.
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content_tagsSOM neurons are as sharply frequency-tuned as excitatory neurons even though they too receive a broad range of excitatory input.
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content_tagsBoth the synaptic input onset and the spike onset of SOM neurons occur significantly later than those of PV and excitatory neurons.
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content_tagsMeasured 10 dB above threshold, PV receptive fields were twice as broad as those of SOM and excitatory neurons, which did not differ from each other.
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content_tagsSOM neurons had significantly higher intensity thresholds than PV and excitatory neurons.
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content_tagsSOM neurons fired with significantly less precise timing, showing larger first-spike jitter than PV and excitatory neurons.
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content_tagsPV neurons converted almost their whole synaptic input range into spike output (highest spike-range/input-range ratio), whereas SOM neurons converted the least.
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content_tagsTone-evoked subthreshold depolarizations (EPSPs) were significantly larger in PV neurons than in SOM or excitatory neurons.
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content_tagsEvery recorded PV cell had a spike trough-to-peak interval below 0.5 ms while every recorded excitatory cell was above 0.5 ms, so waveform width separates the two classes in layer 2/3.
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content_tagsPV neurons fired spontaneously at a significantly higher rate than excitatory cells.
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content_tagsThe three cell groups were recorded at statistically indistinguishable cortical depths, so the broad PV tuning is not a depth-sampling artefact.
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content_tagsPV receptive fields were about twice as broad as SOM and excitatory ones, which did not differ from each other
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content_tagsthe same result held for a second bandwidth measure taken from an envelope fit
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content_tagsPV cells fired much faster to tones than SOM or excitatory cells, and had higher spontaneous rates
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content_tagsSOM cells had higher intensity thresholds, so they may not inhibit at low sound levels
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content_tagsSOM cells had larger first-spike jitter than PV or excitatory cells
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content_tagsspikes occur in the order PV, excitatory, SOM, with SOM markedly delayed
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content_tagsall PV cells had trough-to-peak intervals under 0.5 ms and all excitatory cells above, but 13% of SOM cells also fell under
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content_tagsPV cells were less intensity-tuned than excitatory cells
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content_tagsADOPTED THE RIVAL'S METHOD: fitting bandwidth by Gaussian as the disputing study did, the disagreement survived - PV tuning was still broader
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content_tagsthree candidate causes remain for the disagreement: indirect optogenetic versus direct visual targeting, contamination in tungsten electrode recording, and general versus premapped A1
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content_tagsCONTROL NULL: the three cell groups did not differ in characteristic frequency distribution
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content_tagsCONTROL NULL: the three groups did not differ in cortical depth, so the tuning difference is not a sampling bias
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content_tagsCONTROL: the imaging laser and chiller were isolated and no scanning occurred during recording, so scanner noise could not contaminate auditory responses
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content_tagscharacteristic frequency (CF)
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content_tagsintensity threshold
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content_tagsBandwidth of TRF
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content_tagsintensity selectivity index (ISI)
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content_tagsonset latency of spike response
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content_tagscharacteristic frequency
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content_tagstonal receptive field
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content_tagsintensity selectivity index
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content_tagstrough-to-peak interval
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content_tagsbandwidth of spike TRF
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content_tagsresponse onset latency
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content_tagsbody temperature
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content_tagsdistribution of characteristic frequencies
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content_tagscortical depth
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content_tagsBW10
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content_tagsintensity threshold
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content_tagsjitter
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content_tags27 PV, 16 SOM, 22 excitatory — number of neurons recorded in the cell-attached spike dataset
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content_tagsPV, 75 ± 6 Hz; SOM, 28 ± 4 Hz; Exc, 39 ± 6 Hz — average tone-evoked firing rates of the three cell types
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content_tagsPV, 1.43 ± 0.12 octave; SOM, 0.67 ± 0.06 octave; Exc, 0.64 ± 0.03 octave — receptive-field bandwidth 10 dB above threshold (BW10) per cell type
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content_tagsPV, 36 ± 1.93 dB SPL; SOM, 47.86 ± 2.22 dB SPL; Exc, 40 ± 0.97 dB SPL — average intensity threshold of the tonal receptive field per cell type
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content_tagsPV (0.89 ± 0.06), SOM (0.43 ± 0.05), excitatory (0.61 ± 0.04) — ratio of spike response frequency range to synaptic input frequency range at 60 dB SPL
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content_tagsPV, 16.59 ± 0.58 ms; SOM, 26.44 ± 0.91 ms; Exc, 18.64 ± 0.88 ms — average spike onset latency to CF tones at 60 dB SPL
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content_tagsPV, 1.54 ± 0.12 ms; SOM, 3.21 ± 0.36 ms; Exc, 1.75 ± 0.19 ms — average jitter (SD) of first-spike timing for CF tones at 60 dB SPL
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content_tags13% — share of SOM neurons whose spike trough-to-peak interval was shorter than 0.5 ms (the PV-like range)
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content_tags67% of PV cells displaying R 2 < 0.3 — proportion of PV cells whose plateau-shaped tuning fitted a Gaussian curve poorly
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content_tags0.5 ms — trough-to-peak cut separating PV from excitatory cells here, crossed by 13% of SOM cells
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content_tags27, 16, 22 — PV, SOM and excitatory neurons recorded
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content_tags1.17 vs 0.52 vs 0.55 octave — Gaussian-fit tuning bandwidth for PV, SOM and excitatory cells using the disputed study's own method
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content_tags67% — PV cells whose plateau-shaped tuning fits a Gaussian below R squared 0.3
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content_tagsunder 10% — chance that an unlabelled comparison cell was actually an interneuron
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content_tags287 — frequency-intensity combinations presented per cell
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