title: Parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory interneurons in auditory cortex are well-tuned for frequency.
abstract: In the auditory cortex, synaptic inhibition is known to be involved in shaping receptive fields, enhancing temporal precision, and regulating gain. Cortical inhibition is provided by local GABAergic interneurons, which comprise 10-20% of the cortical population and can be separated into numerous subclasses. The morphological and physiological diversity of interneurons suggests that these different subclasses have unique roles in sound processing; however, these roles are yet unknown. Understanding the receptive field properties of distinct inhibitory cell types will be critical to elucidating their computational function in cortical circuits. Here we characterized the tuning and response properties of parvalbumin-positive (PV+) interneurons, the largest inhibitory subclass. We used channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) as an optogenetic tag to identify PV+ and PV- neurons in vivo in transgenic mice. In contrast to PV+ neurons in mouse visual cortex, which are broadly tuned for orientation, we found that auditory cortical PV+ neurons were well tuned for frequency, although very tightly tuned PV+ cells were uncommon. This suggests that PV+ neurons play a minor role in shaping frequency tuning, and is consistent with the idea that PV+ neurons nonselectively pool input from the local network. PV+ interneurons had shallower response gain and were less intensity-tuned than PV- neurons, suggesting that PV+ neurons provide dynamic gain control and shape intensity tuning in auditory cortex. PV+ neurons also had markedly faster response latencies than PV- neurons, consistent with a computational role in enhancing the temporal precision of cortical responses.
authors: Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
authors: Alexandra K
authors: AK
authors: Moore
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Wehr
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000200:Action Potentials / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000166:cytology*; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D000075402:Channelrhodopsins; D005260:Female; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D007395:Interneurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000502:physiology*; D062308:Optogenetics; D010320:Parvalbumins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric
chemical_list: D000075402:Channelrhodopsins; D010320:Parvalbumins; C485184:enhanced green fluorescent protein; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins
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