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ReviewPflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology2024

Multimodal cortical neuronal cell type classification.

Xiaoyi Mao, Jochen F Staiger

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Review in Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Mapping Projectome Heterogeneity of Subiculum Neuron Cell Types.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  11. Single-dose psilocybin promotes cell-type-specific changes of neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  14. The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  18. Solving the enigma of burst suppression.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Xiaoyi MaoInstitute for Neuroanatomy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August-University, Kreuzbergring 36, 37075, Göttingen, Germany.
Jochen F StaigerInstitute for Neuroanatomy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August-University, Kreuzbergring 36, 37075, Göttingen, Germany. jochen.staiger@med.uni-goettingen.de.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since more than a century, neuroscientists have distinguished excitatory (glutamatergic) neurons with long-distance projections from inhibitory (GABAergic) neurons with local projections and established layer-dependent schemes for the ~ 80% excitatory (principal) cells as well as the ~ 20% inhibitory neurons. Whereas, in the early days, mainly morphological criteria were used to define cell types, later supplemented by electrophysiological and neurochemical properties, nowadays. single-cell transcriptomics is the method of choice for cell type classification. Bringing recent insight together, we conclude that despite all established layer- and area-dependent differences, there is a set of reliably identifiable cortical cell types that were named (among others) intratelencephalic (IT), extratelencephalic (ET), and corticothalamic (CT) for the excitatory cells, which altogether comprise ~ 56 transcriptomic cell types (t-types). By the same means, inhibitory neurons were subdivided into parvalbumin (PV), somatostatin (SST), vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), and "other (i.e. Lamp5/Sncg)" subpopulations, which altogether comprise ~ 60 t-types. The coming years will show which t-types actually translate into "real" cell types that show a common set of multimodal features, including not only transcriptome but also physiology and morphology as well as connectivity and ultimately function. Only with the better knowledge of clear-cut cell types and experimental access to them, we will be able to reveal their specific functions, a task which turned out to be difficult in a part of the brain being so much specialized for cognition as the cerebral cortex.

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Cerebral CortexNeuronsAnimalsHumansTranscriptomeCerebral cortexExcitatory neuronsInhibitory neuronsMultimodal classificationNeuronal cell typesTranscriptomics

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PMID38376567
PMCPMC11033238

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