Neurons seem to form small teams - how small?
Editor Mahesh M. Karnani
Interneuron Cooperativity in Cortical Circuits (2018)
Mahesh M. Karnani, Jesse Jackson
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073858417733719
Jun 01, 2020 - We summarize the constraints on interneuron team size, and speculated that the teams are roughly layer-delimited bands of ~10 to 50 INs defined by their electrical coupling and disinhibition of each other. This peeriodical aims to improve this estimate.
Cooperative Subnetworks of Molecularly Similar Interneurons in Mouse Neocortex (2016)
Mahesh M. Karnani, Jesse Jackson, Inbal Ayzenshtat, Jason Tucciarone, Kasra Manoocheri, William G. Snider, Rafael Yuste
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27021171
Jun 01, 2020 - VIP and SOM interneurons in V1 and S1 form cooperative within-class teams: the more a few nearby SOM neurons fire, the more other nearby SOMs will fire. Same for VIPs. Mechanisms are broadly the same for both populations: sparse and weak electrical coupling through gap-junctions, a...