Behavioral-state modulation of inhibition is context-dependent and cell type specific in mouse visual cortex
- University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Abstract
Cortical responses to sensory stimuli are modulated by behavioral state. In the primary visual cortex (V1), visual responses of pyramidal neurons increase during locomotion. This response gain was suggested to be mediated through inhibitory neurons, resulting in the disinhibition of pyramidal neurons. Using in vivo two-photon calcium imaging in layers 2/3 and 4 in mouse V1, we reveal that locomotion increases the activity of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), somatostatin (SST) and parvalbumin (PV)-positive interneurons during visual stimulation, challenging the disinhibition model. In darkness, while most VIP and PV neurons remained locomotion responsive, SST and excitatory neurons were largely non-responsive. Context-dependent locomotion responses were found in each cell type, with the highest proportion among SST neurons. These findings establish that modulation of neuronal activity by locomotion is context-dependent and contest the generality of a disinhibitory circuit for gain control of sensory responses by behavioral state.
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Nathalie L Rochefort
Funding
Wellcome (102857/Z/13/Z)
- Nathalie LI Rochefort
EuroSpin Erasmus Mundus Program
- Sander W Keemink
Royal Society (102857/Z/13/Z)
- Nathalie LI Rochefort
European Commission (Marie Curie Actions (FP7), MC-CIG 631770)
- Nathalie LI Rochefort
Patrick Wild Centre
- Nathalie LI Rochefort
The Shirley Foundation
- Nathalie LI Rochefort
RS MacDonald Charitable Trust (Seedcorn Grant 21)
- Nathalie LI Rochefort
University Of Edinburgh (Graduate School of Life Sciences)
- Evelyn Dylda
European Commission (Marie Curie Actions (FP7), IEF 624461)
- Janelle MP Pakan
EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Neuroinformatics (EP/F500385/1 and BB/F529254/1)
- Sander W Keemink
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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Animal experimentation: All procedures were approved by the University of Edinburgh animal welfare committee, and were performed under a UK Home Office Project License (PPL No. 60/4570).
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© 2016, Pakan et al.
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Behavioral-state modulation of inhibition is context-dependent and cell type specific in mouse visual cortex
eLife 5:e14985.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.14985
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