Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5736936 | Current Opinion in Neurobiology | 2017 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Interneurons play a critical role in sculpting neuronal circuit activity and their dysfunction can result in neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. To temporally structure and balance neuronal activity in the adult brain interneurons display a remarkable degree of subclass-specific plasticity, of which the underlying molecular mechanisms have recently begun to be elucidated. Grafting new interneurons to pre-existing neuronal networks allows for amelioration of circuit dysfunction in rodent models of neurological disease and can reopen critical windows for circuit plasticity. The crucial contribution of specific classes of interneurons to circuit homeostasis and plasticity in health and disease underscores their generation as an important objective for emerging strategies of lineage reprogramming in vivo.
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Authors
Nathalie Dehorter, Nicolás Marichal, Oscar MarÃn, Benedikt Berninger,