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JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 109, Issue 2, Pages 332-343Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01085.2011
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acetylcholine; antennal lobe; GABA; honeybee; iontophoresis
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Girardin CC, Kreissl S, Galizia CG. Inhibitory connections in the honeybee antennal lobe are spatially patchy. J Neurophysiol 109: 332-343, 2013. First published October 24, 2012; doi:10.1152/jn.01085.2011.-The olfactory system is a classical model for studying sensory processing. The first olfactory brain center [the olfactory bulb of vertebrates and the antennal lobe (AL) of insects] contains spherical neuropiles called glomeruli. Each glomerulus receives the information from one olfactory receptor type. Interglomerular computation is accomplished by lateral connectivity via interneurons. However, the spatial and functional organization of these lateral connections is not completely understood. Here we studied the spatial logic in the AL of the honeybee. We combined topical application of neurotransmitters, olfactory stimulations, and in vivo calcium imaging to visualize the arrangement of lateral connections. Suppression of activity in a single glomerulus with gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) while presenting an odor reveals the existence of inhibitory interactions. Stimulating a glomerulus with acetylcholine (ACh) activates inhibitory interglomerular connections that can reduce odor-evoked responses. We show that this lateral network is patchy, in that individual glomeruli inhibit other glomeruli with graded strength, but in a spatially discontinuous manner. These results suggest that processing of olfactory information requires combinatorial activity patterns with complex topologies across the AL.
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