Friday, November 27, 2015

A census of neocortical neurons

How many types of neurons does your doctor know about and what are the different stroke protocols to rebuild/recover them?
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6264/1051.12.full?
Science
Vol. 350 no. 6264 pp. 1051-1053
DOI: 10.1126/science.350.6264.1051-l
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A census of neocortical neurons

Despite the importance of the brain's neocortex, we still do not completely understand the diversity and functional connections of its cell types. Jiang et al. recorded, labeled, and classified over 1200 interneurons and more than 400 pyramidal neurons in the mature mouse visual cortex. Fifteen major classes of interneurons fell into three types: some connect to all neurons, some connect to other interneurons, and some form synapses with pyramidal neurons.
Science, this issue p. 10.1126/science.aac9462

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