PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stern, Peter R.
TI  - Curbing the Other Side
AID  - 10.1126/scisignal.2002994
DP  - 2012 Feb 28
TA  - Science Signaling
PG  - ec68--ec68
VI  - 5
IP  - 213
4099  - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/5/213/ec68.short
4100  - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/5/213/ec68.full
SO  - Sci. Signal.2012 Feb 28; 5
AB  - The two hemispheres of the brain are connected via the corpus callosum; however, this pathway and its function are still not fully understood. Palmer et al. used a combination of optogenetic, calcium-imaging, and electrophysiological methods to investigate the cellular mechanism of interhemispheric inhibition of the firing frequency of neocortical layer 5 pyramidal neurons in rats in vivo and in vitro. They discovered that this form of inhibition involved interneurons in the top layers of the cortex that suppressed active dendritic currents synergistically recruited by back-propagating action potentials. This mechanism depended upon a γ-aminobutyric acid type B receptor–mediated mechanism acting on specific ion channels in the dendrites of pyramidal neurons. L. M. Palmer, J. M. Schulz, S. C. Murphy, D. Ledergerber, M. Murayama, M. E. Larkum, The cellular basis of GABAB-mediated interhemispheric inhibition. Science 335, 989–993 (2012). [Abstract] [Full Text]