The long and short of GABAergic neurons

• Verfasst von: Caputi, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Melzer, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Michael, Magdalena [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Monyer, Hannah [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The long and short of GABAergic neurons
• Verf.angabe: Antonio Caputi, Sarah Melzer, Magdalena Michael and Hannah Monyer
• E-Jahr: 2013
• Jahr: 5th February 2013
• Umfang: 8 S.
• Teil: volume:23
• Teil: year:2013
• Teil: number:2
• Teil: pages:179-186
• Teil: extent:8
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 05.03.2021
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Current opinion in neurobiology
• Ort Quelle: Philadelphia, Pa. : Current Biology, 1991
• Jahr Quelle: 2013
• Band/Heft Quelle: 23(2013), 2, Seite 179-186
• ISSN Quelle: 1873-6882
• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.conb.2013.01.021
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1750574950

Abstract

GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the adult brain. Studies on GABAergic cells have focused almost exclusively on local interneurons neglecting those inhibitory neurons projecting to different brain areas, the ‘long-range GABAergic cells’. This review focuses on some common features and peculiarities of ‘corticofugal’ and ‘corticopetal’ GABAergic cells. Similarly to their local counterpart, long-range GABAergic cells show immunohistochemical diversity and contact locally both excitatory and inhibitory cells. Distally, long-range GABAergic cells often target other inhibitory neurons. This feature endows them with the ability to control remote target areas via disinhibition. On the basis of few functional studies that investigated their participation in synchronous network activity, we propose that long-range GABAergic neurons play a critical role in the temporal coordination of neuronal activity in distant brain areas.