Journal
ELIFE
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.73783
Keywords
connectomics; inhibition; visual cortex; axon initial segment; Mouse
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Funding
- Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity [D16PC0005]
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [U19 NS104648]
- Army Research Office [W911NF-12-1-0594]
- National Eye Institute [R01 EY027036]
- National Institute of Mental Health [U01 MH114824, RF1MH117815]
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokescience [R01 NS104926]
- Mathers Foundation
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This study used electron microscopy and functional imaging to investigate the connectivity of chandelier cells in the mouse visual cortex, finding that synapse number is highly variable across the population and correlated with structural features of target neurons. Biophysical simulations demonstrated the effectiveness of axo-axonic inhibition in controlling excitatory output, especially when excitation and inhibition are co-active. In vivo chandelier cell activity was found to be highly correlated with pupil dilation, suggesting that chandelier cells provide a circuit-wide signal adjusted relative to target neuron properties.
Inhibitory neurons in mammalian cortex exhibit diverse physiological, morphological, molecular, and connectivity signatures. While considerable work has measured the average connectivity of several interneuron classes, there remains a fundamental lack of understanding of the connectivity distribution of distinct inhibitory cell types with synaptic resolution, how it relates to properties of target cells, and how it affects function. Here, we used large-scale electron microscopy and functional imaging to address these questions for chandelier cells in layer 2/3 of the mouse visual cortex. With dense reconstructions from electron microscopy, we mapped the complete chandelier input onto 153 pyramidal neurons. We found that synapse number is highly variable across the population and is correlated with several structural features of the target neuron. This variability in the number of axo-axonic ChC synapses is higher than the variability seen in perisomatic inhibition. Biophysical simulations show that the observed pattern of axo-axonic inhibition is particularly effective in controlling excitatory output when excitation and inhibition are co-active. Finally, we measured chandelier cell activity in awake animals using a cell-type-specific calcium imaging approach and saw highly correlated activity across chandelier cells. In the same experiments, in vivo chandelier population activity correlated with pupil dilation, a proxy for arousal. Together, these results suggest that chandelier cells provide a circuit-wide signal whose strength is adjusted relative to the properties of target neurons.
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