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Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos1, Takeaki Miyamae1, Yosuke Nishihata1
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Abstract:
The primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) displays unique in vivo activity patterns, but how in vivo activity regulates DLPFC pyramidal neuron (PN) properties remains unclear. We assessed the effects of in vivo Kir2.1 overexpression, a genetic silencing tool, on synapses in monkey DLPFC PNs. We show for the first time that recombinant ion channel expression successfully modifies the excitability of primate cortex neurons, producing effects on synaptic properties apparently different from those in the rodent cortex.
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