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Targeted Labeling of Neurons in a Specific Functional Micro-domain of the Neocortex by Combining Intrinsic Signal and Two-photon Imaging
Published on: December 12, 2012
Fast-spiking interneurons have an initial orientation bias that is lost with vision
Sandra J Kuhlman1, Elaine Tring, Joshua T Trachtenberg
1Department of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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We found that in mice, following eye opening, fast-spiking, parvalbumin-positive GABAergic interneurons had well-defined orientation tuning preferences and that subsequent visual experience broadened this tuning. Broad inhibitory tuning was not required for the developmental sharpening of excitatory tuning but did precede binocular matching of excitatory orientation tuning. We propose that experience-dependent broadening of inhibition is a candidate for initiating the critical period of excitatory binocular plasticity in developing visual cortex.
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