Bidirectional optogenetic control of inhibitory neurons in freely-moving mice

Noked, Levi, Someck, Amber-Vitos, Stark · IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2020 · neuroscience · 10.1109/tbme.2020.3001242 · record Noked2020-bidirectional-optogenetic-control-of-inhibit
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disynaptic dis-inhibition predictive model laser diode ChR2 rate increase Choosing an inhibitory (PV) opsin-expressing cell reverses the sign of the expected synaptic side-effect, so any blue-light-driven rate increase in the tagged cell must come from direct illumination rather than from trans-synaptic drive Optically driven PV cells inhibit their postsynaptic pyramidal partners, so activating the PV cell lowers pyramidal firing and silencing it raises pyramidal firing a recorded neuron can inherit a rate change it never received light for SAG model driving current spike rate light power device temperature epochs with no stimulation inhibitory cell type Mann-Whitney U test Mann-Whitney U-test binomial test exact Binomial test Poisson test effect size The effect size for these units was h= principal component analysis principal component analysis of the data Gaussian mixture model Gaussian-mixture model confidence bands mean and standard deviation standard error of the mean mean ± standard error of the mean system-or-tool-building

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content_tagsthree freely-moving male mice — Number of animals implanted, all heterozygous for PV-Cre and expressing ChR2 and Jaws in PV interneurons
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