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Nature Neuroscience 10, 808 - 810 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0707-808
Bypassing interneurons: inhibition in neocortex
Barry W Connors1 & Scott J Cruikshank1
- The authors are in the Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA. e-mail: BC@brown.edu
Abstract
A recent paper suggests a new form of inhibitory circuit in cortex, in which a pyramidal cell directly excites the presynaptic terminal of an inhibitory interneuron, allowing the rapid and powerful inhibition of another pyramidal cell.
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