A novel local circuit in the olfactory bulb involving an old short-axon cell.
Many local circuit interactions in the olfactory bulb involve atypical dendrodendritic synapses. In this issue of Neuron, Pressler and Strowbridge report a functional analysis of a class of short-axon interneurons in the bulb called Blanes cells. Blanes cells make GABAergic axonal contacts onto granule cells and may mediate a form of local feedforward disinhibition.
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Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA.
D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology*; D007395:Interneurons / Q000166:cytology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology*; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000166:cytology*