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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2019

Presynaptic GABAA Receptors Modulate Thalamocortical Inputs in Layer 4 of Rat V1.

L Wang, M Kloc, E Maher, A Erisir, A Maffei

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Presynaptic control of top-down signaling in neocortical layer 1.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  5. Unique Properties of Thalamocortical Projections to the Gustatory Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  8. Inhibitory Gating of Thalamocortical Inputs onto Rat Gustatory Insular Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  12. Altered Thalamocortical Signaling in a Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  16. Direction of action of presynaptic GABAJournal of neurophysiology · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

L WangDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
M KlocDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
E MaherDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
A ErisirDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
A MaffeiDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Stony Brook University · USUniversity of Virginia · US

Funding

Inhibitory plasticity in visual cortical circuitsR01EY019885 · NEI · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI MAFFEI, ARIANNA · 2010 to 2013
$1.4M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY019885
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fast inhibitory GABAergic transmission plays a fundamental role in neural circuits. Current theories of cortical function assume that fast GABAergic inhibition acts via GABAA receptors on postsynaptic neurons, while presynaptic effects of GABA depend on GABAB receptor activation. Manipulations of GABAA receptor activity in vivo produced different effects on cortical function, which were generally ascribed to the mode of action of a drug, more than its site of action. Here we show that in rodent primary visual cortex, α4-containing GABAA receptors can be located on subsets of glutamatergic and GABAergic presynaptic terminals and decrease synaptic transmission. Our data provide a novel mechanistic insight into the effects of changes in cortical inhibition; the ability to modulate inputs onto cortical circuits locally, via presynaptic regulation of release by GABAA receptors.

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Synaptic TransmissionAnimalsFemaleGeniculate BodiesGlutamic AcidMaleNeural PathwaysNeuronsPresynaptic TerminalsRatsReceptors, GABA-AVisual CortexGlutamic AcidReceptors, GABA-A

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PMID29373653
PMCPMC13209156
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