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ArticleNeuron2015

Simultaneous encoding of odors by channels with diverse sensitivity to inhibition.

Elizabeth J Hong, Rachel I Wilson

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Article in Neuron, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Normative and mechanistic model of an adaptive circuit for efficient encoding and feature extraction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth J HongDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Rachel I WilsonDepartment of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: rachel_wilson@hms.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Synaptic and Circuit Mechanisms of Olfactory ProcessingR01DC008174 · NIDCD · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI WILSON, RACHEL · 2006 to 2021
$5.5M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC008174NIDCD NIH HHS R01DC008174
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Odorant receptors in the periphery map precisely onto olfactory glomeruli ("coding channels") in the brain. However, the odor tuning of a glomerulus is not strongly correlated with its spatial position. This raises the question of whether lateral inhibition between glomeruli is specific or nonspecific. Here we show that, in the Drosophila brain, focal activation of even a single glomerulus recruits GABAergic interneurons in all glomeruli. Moreover, the relative level of interneuron activity in different glomeruli is largely odor invariant. Although interneurons are recruited nonspecifically, glomeruli differ dramatically in their sensitivity to interneuron activity, and this is explained by their varying sensitivity to GABA. Interestingly, a stimulus is typically encoded in parallel by channels having high and low sensitivity to inhibition. Because lateral inhibition confers both costs and benefits, the brain might rely preferentially on "high" and "low" channels in different behavioral contexts.

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OdorantsAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedDrosophilaFemaleNeural InhibitionOlfactory BulbReceptors, OdorantSmellReceptors, Odorant

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PMID25619655
PMCPMC5495107
OpenAlexW2009156797

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